What is Prunus × yedoensis?
{{italictitle}} [[File:2020-04-07 Prunus × yedoensis Tambasasayama,Hyogo(丹波篠山市篠山川のソメイヨシノ)DSCF2986☆彡.jpg|thumb|right|220px|A ''Prunus × yedoensis'']] '''''Prunus'' × ''yedoensis''''' (synonym '''''Cerasus'' ×&nbsp;''yedoensis''''') is a [[Hybrid (biology)|hybrid]] cherry tree between ''[[Prunus speciosa]]'' (''Oshima cherry'') as father plant and [[Prunus itosakura|''Prunus pendula'' f. ''ascendens'']] (syn. ''Prunus itosakura'', ''Prunus subhirtella'' var. ''ascendens'', ''Edo higan'') as mother.<ref name=Nakamura>{{cite journal |author1=Satoshi Ohta |author2=Shinsuke Osumi |author3=Toshio Katsuki |author4=Ikuo Nakamura |author5=Toshiya Yamamoto |author6=Yo-Ichiro Sato |title=Genetic characterization of flowering cherries (''Prunus'' subgenus ''Cerasus'') using ''rpl16-rpl14'' spacer sequences of chloroplast DNA| url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jjshs/75/1/75_1_72/_pdf | journal=園芸雑誌(J. Japan. Soc. Hort. Sci.)|year=2006|volume=75|issue=1|pages=72–78| access-date=2011-04-06 | doi=10.2503/jjshs.75.72|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>[https://static-content.springer.com/esm/art%3A10.1007%2Fs11295-014-0697-1/MediaObjects/11295_2014_697_MOESM5_ESM.pdf Online Resource 5. Inferences, from morphological classification and STRUCTURE analysis, on the origins of Japanese flowering cherry cultivars] p.7 ‘Yedoensis’/染井吉野 (Cer194) 、STRUCTURE analysis (K = 11)、 Tree Genetics & Genomes Volume 10, Issue 3(2014), pp 477-487、30 Jan. 2014、Supplementary Material (5) 11295_2014_697_MOESM5_ESM.pdf (318KB)</ref> It is a hybrid born in [[Japan]]. It is is one of the most popular and widely planted cherry trees around the world today.<ref name=rhs>Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan {{ISBN|0-333-47494-5}}.</ref><ref name=rushforth>Rushforth, K. (1999). ''Trees of Britain and Europe''. Collins {{ISBN|0-00-220013-9}}.</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{biology-stub}} [[Category:Trees]] [[Category:Prunus]]