Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JAP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Korea | KOR |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 83 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | 1.7 °C | 3.2 °C | 8.3 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 19.2 °C | 21.3 °C | 26.5 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 2,997 mm | 3,677 mm | 4,577 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 153 mm | 256 mm | 387 mm |
It is found where winters are cool but frost is light or absent. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 83 research-grade observations of Prunus itosakura that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 76 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Cerasus herincquiana Lavallée
- Cerasus itosakura (Siebold) Masam. & S.Suzuki
- Cerasus itosakura f. ascendens (Makino) H.Ohba & H.Ikeda
- Cerasus japonica unranked pendula Parsons
- Cerasus microlepis (Koehne) Kovalev & Kostina
- Cerasus pendula (Desf.) Sweet
- Cerasus pendula Regel
- Cerasus pendula unranked floreroseo Siebold
- Cerasus pseudocerasus var. pendula Lavallée
- Cerasus spachiana Lavallée ex Ed.Otto
- Cerasus spachiana f. ascendens (Makino) H.Ohba
- Cerasus subhirtella f. ascendens (Makino) S.Ya.Sokolov
- Cerasus subhirtella f. rosea (Nakai) S.Ya.Sokolov
- Cerasus subhirtella var. ascendens (Makino) X.R.Wang & C.B.Shang
- Cerasus subhirtella var. pendula (Y.Tanaka) T.T.Yu & C.L.Li
- Cerasus taiwaniana (Hayata) Masam. & S.Suzuki
- Prunus aequinoctialis Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis f. aggregata Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis f. alborubescens Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis f. plenarosea Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis f. rosea Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis f. villosula Miyoshi
- Prunus aequinoctialis var. pendula (Y.Tanaka) Miyoshi
- Prunus biloba Franch. ex Koehne
and 52 more.
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.