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Wed, Feb 18, 09 at 16:17
| Does anyone know what cultivar of flowering cherry is now blooming in the median of US Highway 76 in Clemson? It's used there and in several other highway right-of-way plantings in and around Clemson, and obviously, blooms much earlier than most other flowering cherries. (It's definitely not _Prunus mume_, the Japanese flowering apricot.) |
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- Posted by bumblebeez z7b Seneca SC (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 8:35
| I believe it's Okame cherry. I have several in my yard. |
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| Thanks, bumblebeez. Will add the Okame cherry to my list of "must-have" flowering trees. Our Japanese flowering apricots, which bloom in January and tolerate normally cold weather, were badly hurt by the couple of near-ten-degree nights that struck them in bud and in flower. I need to add something to the yard that blooms a little later than the mumes but still ahead of the later flowering cherries. The Okame should fit the bill. Have you tried the Taiwan cherry, _Prunus campanulata_, which also blooms early? |
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- Posted by bumblebeez z7b Seneca SC (My Page) on Thu, Feb 19, 09 at 10:25
| Okame has Taiwan as a parent. You might find this article is interesting. I like flowering apricots also but the one I have, Kobai gets bitten each year by the cold. The Clemson Botanical gardens have several varieties of flowering apricot that are glorious so hopefully mine will eventually be too. They have a grouping of varieties in the meadow across from the Wren House and a specimen in the hosta garden. I choose Kobai after smelling all of them but Kobai had the deepest aroma- although it might have just been that tree. I love the fragrance of the apricots. I'm only guessing that the trees in Clemson are Okame. I might be wrong. |
Here is a link that might be useful: taiwan cherry
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