prunus patterns in white

(above)Prunus cerasifera (Myrobalan or Cherry Plum) when it's being floriferous. You can find other sprays in the shade with only one or two flowers among the new leaves.



(above)Prunus avium (Wild Cherry), raceme.



There are lots of Prunus varieties that I can't identify; this is one of them, a spectacular tree photographed yesterday in Melksham (I only saw the top of it - it was behind a wall). This tree is in full bloom, but in Frome the earliest 'Sato Zakura' ornamentals are only just starting to open: Shirotae, Cheal's Weeping, Hokusai... However, (written a couple of days later) the flowering sequence of these cherries is, this year, extremely compressed; consequence of a very late spring combined with a solid week of clear weather - even Kanzan is out in a few places, as is Tai-Haku. In these unusual circumstances local variations in micro-climate may dominate the regular sequence, so it could be that this is (what I first supposed it was) a Tai-Haku with exceptionally clustered blooms on old shoots.