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[hugekebab]

So, cherry blossom coming out of my arse, but I have never seen a cherry in this country.

Explain. *I'm assuming a wrong variety/inedible variety.

[prideofidaho]

I was curious about that too, but it seems that the fruit comes from another species of trees, and the name is rather a sort of translation of the Japanese word for the tree.

The wikipedia article mentions this:

In its colonial enterprises, imperial Japan often planted cherry trees as a means of "claiming occupied territory as Japanese space".[8] For this reason, the symbolic import of the cherry trees is quite different in Korea, where the trees at Seoul's Gyeongbok Palace were cut down to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of liberation from Japanese colonial rule.[8]

which was interesting.

Fruit or no fruit, they're a pretty lovely sign that winter is ovah.

[schwa]

Same family but non-fruit-bearing. More accurately, these are "ornamental cherry trees."

[hugekebab]

[Lost]

The trees blooming now are magnolia's