Very famous is the Japanese cherry trees event happening in Tokyo during this month, which I really wish one day to go to. 😍🌸🌹🏵
Although in London there is a beautiful place where you can enjoy a walk surrounded by nature in bloom. I am talking about the Kew Gardens.
But do you know what the differences are between a cherry🍒, plum 🏵, almond 🌳 and peach🍑 tree?
They might be mistaken but if you look carefully you can see they have peculiar characteristics, starting from the flowers.
All of them belong to the same family, in fact they all present the following floral formula, which is:
K5 C5 A10+ G1+
and means they have 5 sepals, 5 petals, the male part of the flower is formed by 10 or more stamens, and the female part by 1 or more carpels.
The cherry🍒 flowers have a little rift on the tip of the petals and they are distributed on the branch in long single stems.
The plum 🏵 ones are rounded and don't have any stem.
The almond 🌳 flowers instead are white/pale pink with many rifts on the petals tip.
Finally the peach🍑 ones have a tear-drop shape and the blossoms are united in pairs on the branch with shorter stems.
SOURCE: University della Calabria, Facoltà Agraria.
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