Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations
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Native range 2 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| Japan | JAP | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Nansei-shoto | NNS |
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 87 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -5.3 °C | -1.2 °C | 4.4 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 25.8 °C | 28.7 °C | 29.9 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 1,355 mm | 1,537 mm | 2,537 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 134 mm | 160 mm | 374 mm |
It is found where winters bring hard frost. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 87 research-grade observations of Prunus jamasakura 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 Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.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 279 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 floridula (Miyoshi) Masam. & S.Suzuki
- Cerasus jamasakura (Makino) H.Ohba
- Cerasus jamasakura f. pendula (Sugim.) H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Cerasus jamasakura f. purpureorubra (Kawas.) H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
- Cerasus jamasakura var. chikusiensis (Koidz.) H.Ohba
- Cerasus kanzakura (Makino) H.Ohba
- Cerasus superflua (Koidz.) Masam. & S.Suzuki
- Prunus antiqua Miyoshi
- Prunus chikusiensis Koidz.
- Prunus densiflora Koehne
- Prunus donarium f. humilis (Makino) Koidz.
- Prunus donarium f. praecox Koidz.
- Prunus donarium subsp. elegans Koidz.
- Prunus donarium var. glabra (Makino) Koidz.
- Prunus donarium var. spontanea (Maxim.) Makino
- Prunus floridula Miyoshi
- Prunus heteroflora Miyoshi
- Prunus jamasakura Siebold
- Prunus jamasakura Nakai
- Prunus jamasakura f. aeruginosa M.Hiroe
- Prunus jamasakura f. aggregata (Miyoshi) H.Hara
- Prunus jamasakura f. angustipetala (Miyoshi) H.Hara
- Prunus jamasakura f. antiqua (Miyoshi) H.Hara
- Prunus jamasakura f. arakawaensis (Miyoshi) H.Hara
and 255 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.