Identification: What variety is this cherry?

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    Cherry373 New Member

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    First time here don’t know if I’m posting right…
    So I grafted a scion from a “yoshino” tree which I’m 100% sure is yoshino on to this prunus avium lapins, but when the graft took and it flowered, it seems to be behaving and looking different.
     
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    Here’s a picture of full bloom from today.
     

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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    This looks like a cultivar called 'Shiro-fugen', which is more likely to bloom at this time than would a yoshino cherry.
    I have to ask what makes you think you had the ID right on the yoshino. It would seem that you either mis-identified the yoshino, or were doing multiple graftings and got the cuttings mixed up or the trees mixed up. I'm pretty sure that a yoshino scion will not produce 'Shiro-fugen' leaves and flowers.
     
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    Thanks for the reply. This was the one successful graft after many, the trees I intended to take the scions from were yoshino, but I’m starting to think that mixed in with the group was a shiro fugen which I probably didn’t realize cause I’ve only ever seen those trees when the yoshinos bloom and since shiro fugen blooms late I probably missed that there were there too.
     
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    wcutler Paragon of Plants Forums Moderator VCBF Cherry Scout 10 Years

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    Are you trying to start new trees (rather than have your fruit trees have ornamental sections)? Yoshino trees ('Somei-yoshino' and 'Akebono' are what we see here) are supposed to root relatively easily on their own roots (on cuttings placed directly into soil).
     
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    Yes I was trying to start a new tree. My idea was to graft this onto my fruit tree temporarily then air layer it off as a tree. (Might go through with this since the shiro fugen looks really pretty) Here in Ontario there is not much of these trees so I borrowed few small cuttings from a park lol. No one sells them either, at least not for a reasonable price ($500 for a 6ft tree LOL) , but last week I drove like an hour out and managed to buy a yoshino for $200
     
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