This video is no longer available. Crowds admiring the District’s cherry trees are actually seeing a variety of blossoms, and the 12 different varieties range from Akebono to Yoshino. The majority of ...

The Japanese flowering cherry trees now in serene flower around Washington’s Tidal Basin are, for the most part, clones of a single plant favored in 19th-century Tokyo and named Somei-Yoshino. It is ...

WASHINGTON (7News) — Along the Tidal Basin is a very special tree known as the "indicator tree". “The indicator tree tends to run about two weeks or so ahead of the rest of the Yoshinos,” said Mike ...

The frothy and fleeting Yoshino variety defines the Japanese flowering cherry tree experience at the Tidal Basin in Washington. Peak bloom is pegged for this week, markedly earlier than in 2015 when ...