Today at Cambridge University Botanic Garden – a Yoshino Cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) today #cubg (photographed with an iPhone 8)
Yoshino Cherry Tree
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A Diary In Photography
Today at Cambridge University Botanic Garden – a Yoshino Cherry (Prunus x yedoensis) today #cubg (photographed with an iPhone 8)
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Exquisite.
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Really lovely. It seems like there are two trees here, no? And so very different from the cherry trees we saw blooming in Jerusalem a few weeks ago.
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Just one tree! Up close you can see there are branches curving over from the top. It’s very graceful.
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It really is. I went hunting on their website and there’s a similar image showing a single tree. I think it’s the second trunk off to the left of the cherry that misled me. Speaking of which, I found this very interesting as well https://www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/what-are-spring-blooms-telling-us-about-climate-change/ because I recall reading an article about the records that have been kept for the last 200 years or so on when cherry trees blossom in Japan. Must go find it again.
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Missed a digit. The last 1,200 years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2021/03/29/japan-kyoto-cherry-blossoms-record/
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Interesting – and the argument about interpreting temperature records when the built environment has encroached on the landscape is also interesting – and problematic. The Stephenson’s box in a field at the Cambridge University Botanic Garden is not immune from it because there are now tall office buildings just a hundred metres away.
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So beautiful! ❤️
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