{"id":1508,"date":"2025-04-30T01:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2025-04-30T01:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T01:55:11","slug":"cherry-tree-identification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/cherry-tree-identification\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Tree Identification"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1509\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji-340x191.jpg 340w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Cherry_ID_fuji.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Once again, I&#8217;ve been chasing cherry blossoms.  This year I have given more attention to distinguishing different species of cherry trees. The number of hybrids is rather dizzying but I have been focusing on those that I have seen up close in the northeast United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Boston, the Charles River Esplanade is great place to find cherry trees but I could only recognize some of the different trees.  This photo shows one of the trees about which I was very uncertain.  Having vaguely guessed it is a Mount Fuji Cherry, my photographs revealed a clue that sealed the deal.  The leaves are not merely serrated, but it is exaggerated into projections that look like hairs.  That is certainly a Mount Fuji.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That tree has now shed its blossoms. Right now the Kwanzan Cherry trees have bloomed and taken center stage.  As a very popular ornamental tree, you can find them in many places in every northeastern state.  And don&#8217;t forget the crabapple trees and flowering dogwoods which have also bloomed in the past week and are putting on a really colorful show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again, I&#8217;ve been chasing cherry blossoms. This year I have given more attention to distinguishing different species of cherry trees. The number of hybrids is rather dizzying but I have been focusing on those that I have seen up close in the northeast United States. In Boston, the Charles River Esplanade is great place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[269,268,272,271],"class_list":["post-1508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-cherryblossom","tag-cherrytree","tag-floweringtrees","tag-springtimeblooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}