i've noticed these 2 trees for a few years now and still have not figured out who they are. spindly trees in the parking median at Spanish Banks East. single pink or maybe more white
another day another cherry. This one overhangs the bike path between Locarno and Jericho. The sepals are not recurved so not a sweet cherry. looks similar to the one at spanish east.
I've copied this to Ornamental Cherries, to discuss ID there: Single white flowers, hairy stems, mid-season - Spanish Banks.
Nice to come across these Akebono cherry trees on Sasamat between 16th and 14th. Thanks WCutler for helping me identify them.
Just a little west of Highbury, on the centre meridian of W. 16th, Mikuruma-gaeshi is starting its bloom, April 10, 2020, accompanied by Tai-haku.
Tai-haku on the centre meridian at W. 16th, near the Wallace street end is in full bloom and overshadows the Akebono sapling (last photo) behind it at April 10, 2020.
This is a group of 'Shiro-fugen' at Spanish East concession stand. I think there were 3. Further along on our bike ride yesterday. you can see the bronze new growth, the 2 phylloid pistils (elephant trunks) and the bright red bracteoles at the base of the flower stems. The last shot is a bit out of focus, i was trying to get both the beach and the cherry in focus in the same shot, but not quite successful....I'm not sure if this should be in UBC or West point grey......the concession stand I think is on the border!
West Point Grey. The neighbourhoods map is on the Scout Corner - Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival page. The border seems to go to just beyond Drummond - here's an endowment lands map: http://www.universityendowmentlands.gov.bc.ca/library/UEL_Boundary_Map.pdf
Ian Cumming sent these photos of the row of 'Kanzan' on West 10th from Tolmie to Discovery. These were put on our map one year by an unknown person - Ian noted that the marker needs a photo. Thanks, Ian.
The 2 'Shirofugen" on the beach just west of the Jericho Sailing Centre.....lots of bird activity too there today. Pelagic cormorants in their beautiful breeding plumage, iridescent green neck and red beak. 3 terns....I think Caspian, big orange beaks, black heads diving into the water and a couple of huge flocks of black headed gulls. Not sure if they were Bonopartes or Little gulls. They seemed to have a lot of black on the head and reddish legs.....anyways fun to watch their antics flying close to the water as the tide came in this afternoon. Back to the Cherries. I love the way these 2 are persevering in the sand, it reminds me of those tropical trees you see on the beaches in Mexico or Cuba.
Ian Cumming has sent along this photo from 12th Avenue east of Discovery, a festival favourite location.
Janice Lin, of the Green Club of BC, has sent along photos taken by Gako Lin at 7th and Trimble, trees that her scouts have been looking at wondering if they are 'Gyoiko' because there is so much green in the flowers. I made up the date of these when I named them to post them - presumably they were taken in the last day or so. While I have to say that all that green is very impressive, and the photos look remarkably like the 'Gyoiko' photos I posted in the West End thread, I'm looking at the photo I took when I found these ten years ago, see the blossom photo at posting #20. There is no green in that photo, nothing to suggest that these would be anything other than 'Ukon'. That photo was even taken past peak bloom, when the green colour would have developed if it was going to. I suppose it could be that there is a 'Gyoiko' in that block, or more than one, and 10 years ago, I photographed an 'Ukon' on that block. Maybe your scouts would like to go back and check out every tree to see if they look all the same. And then do it next year at peak bloom.
Saw what appeared to my uneducated eye to be three different varieties of cherries walking north on Sasamat between 10th Avenue and Marine. And a neighbour on 12th near Discovery has an early blooming variety in their front garden. (Images to follow once I sort out some editing issues).
Single Ito-zakura in front yard, south side of W. 11th (west of Courtenay) in bloom at April 10, 2021. Finally able to get shot of the bulbous base with the minutely hairy down on calyx, stems and sepals.
Snow Goose just past peak bloom, with first red eyes showing at April 10, 2021. On the south side of W. 11th, east of Discovery.
The Giant of a Tree, Akebono, is in bloom on the south side of W. 7th, west of Blanca, at April 10, 2011—slightly behind last year's time.
