flowering cherry
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Any of several shrubs or trees of the genus Prunus cultivated for their showy white or pink single or double blossoms (synset 112669826)
is a type of: cherry, cherry tree - any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwoodsubtypes:
- fuji, fuji cherry, prunus incisa - shrubby Japanese cherry tree having pale pink blossoms
- japanese cherry, japanese flowering cherry, oriental cherry, prunus serrulata - ornamental tree with inedible fruits widely cultivated in many varieties for its white blossoms
- japanese flowering cherry, prunus sieboldii - ornamental tree with inedible fruit widely cultivated in many varieties for its pink blossoms
- prunus subhirtella, rosebud cherry, winter flowering cherry - shrub or tree native to Japan cultivated as an ornamental for its rose-pink flowers
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