Cerasus sargentii var. sargentii f. pendula("Shidareoyamazakura")
Japanese name: シダレオオヤマザクラ（枝垂大山桜） Scientific name:Cerasus sargentii var. sargentii f. pendula
[Overview]
A deciduous tree 20–25 m tall.
The weeping form of Oyama-zakura, with branches that hang down in arches.
It is found only on the shore of Lake Towada in Aomori.
The bark is dark purplish brown, with conspicuous horizontally elongated lenticels.
The leaves are alternate, ovate to obovate-elliptic, 8–15 cm long and 4–8 cm wide, with sharp serrations on the margin ending in glands, some of the serrations being double.
The undersides of the leaves are tinged with powdery white.
Young leaves are tinged with reddish brown.
The petiole is 1.5–2.5 cm long, hairless, and has nectar glands in its upper part.
The flowers are borne 1–3 per umbel emerging from the leaf axils, and are pale pink with 5 petals.
They open before the leaves emerge or at the same time, measure 3.2–4 cm across, and are faintly fragrant.
The fruit is spherical, about 1 cm across, and ripens to blackish purple.
[History]
It was discovered on the shore of Lake Towada in Aomori.
