For my friends in New York and looking forward to this year's Sakura Matsuri...
Did you know that the sakura trees in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden are a type of Yaezakura called Kanzan? One of the most common sakura trees in Japan is called Somei Yoshino. The flowers are pale pink and have five petals. The Yaezakura flowers have more than five petals. The Kanzan can have blossoms with up to 50 petals each AND they're bright pink. So it's no wonder that it rains pink at the Sakura Matsuri.
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