Miharu Takizakura

The Miharu Takizakura waterfall cherry tree of Miharu is an historical cherry tree in Miharu, Fukushima, in northern Japan. It is a weeping higan cherry Prunus pendula Pendula Rosea benishidarezakura in Japanese and is over 1,000 years vintage. It flowers in mid to past due April, and its light purple plant life unfold in all directions from the branches, like a waterfall. The tree is 12 metres 39 toes excessive, the trunk circumference is 9.5 metres 31 feet, the east-west spread is 22 metres 72 toes, and the north-south spread is eighteen metres 59 ft.

It is classed as one of the five tremendous cherry timber of Japan and one of the 3 large cherry bushes of Japan. It was precise a national treasure in 1922. Polls often rank it because the primary tree in all of Japan. Around 300,000 humans go to the Miharu Takizakura every year, making it an vital source of earnings for Miharu, which is in any other case a farming community of around 17,000 human beings.