[Edited by wcutler 2011aug3]: I no longer consider this posting interesting, and I am not going to maintain it. I have corrected a few of the links below, but I decided to stop. I'd delete it, but am just not confident enough that it's really no longer of any use. What I think makes the thread unnecessary are: I have re-arranged postings in Ornamental Cherry threads so that now most single-white threads contain postings that relate to the thread titles. The Cultivar Locations thread has links to at least one posting of each known tree. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There have been a lot of postings in a lot of places about cherries with 2-3cm single white or pinky-white blossoms blooming early or mid-season. Some of these were just questions, and some we think were mis-identified. Names in the running are mostly Sargentii or some sort of hill or mountain cherry. Here is a list of most of the postings. I've omitted postings that are just about Pandora, Somei-yoshino or Akebono. I've used the IDs that were mentioned in the posting, many of which are up for re-identification. I included a few of the posting numbers next to the thread names, I'm not sure why. Note the introduction - not all these links are still accurate. Single whites: Spire, Pandora, x Syodoi, Schmittii, Colt; was "Spires or what?" Yama-zakura - mid-season, single usually white Pandora - Single white blossoms, early; may be 'Pandora Somei-yoshino vs Pandora? What cherry? Single white blossoms, bronze leaves, mid-season What single white cherries? Early mid-season Umbel vs Corymb - can we tell by looking? I considered this related Sargentii - mid-season, pinky-white, upright, bronze leaves What cherry? Single whites, bronze leaves, large dense tree, late mid-season Takasago – double pale pinks, green leaves, vase shaped, mid-seasonwhere Douglas and Ron started talking about Verecunda, Spontanea and Speciosa 9 The rest of that conversation is now in P. verecunda and other single white mysteries, mid-season And the same trees in the Neighbourhood Blogs Kensington/Cedar Cottage :Sargent 13th & Clark 2008 post, 33rd Ave 2008 post, Anne replied to Ron's "what makes these Sargents?", Ron replied Victoria Drive trees Sargent 13th & Clark 2009 post Sargents on 26th & St Catherines Somei-yoshino at 32nd and Windsor Sargent on Windsor on 33rd (we're at post 101 now) Mariko's reply to the Sargent and Somei-yoshino posts 103 Anne's reply to Mariko, St Catherines photos 105 Laura's photos of 32nd and Windsor 107 Joseph's photos of the 13th & Clark festival favourite Sargents 114 Hastings-Sunrise Joseph's posting of not-typical Somei-yoshino 15 Wendy's posting of trees end of block 6th & Penticton, city IDs as Sargentii 13 Kitsilano 2008 posting of 8th and Arbutus tree 2008 posting of 3rd and Balsam trees 2008 Joseph's photos of 3rd and Balsam trees 19 Riley Park Anne's posting of Sargents E 27th Mariko's sargent in QE Park Shaughnessy Joseph's photo of the Spires on Oak Alex Wang photo of the those Spires on Oak 19 Anne's photo of the Sargent (these are 2008) 22
These are now the threads currently of interest regarding single-whites: Prunus x syodoi, 'Shodo-zakura'? - mid-season, single-white, double-serrated leaves All the trees with the coarsely-serrated or double-serrated leaves. Yama-zakura - mid-season, single usually white The one Killarney tree, a VanDusen tree, and some Japanese and Seattle Yama-zakura. Korean Hill Cherry? Late blooming, single white, narrow petals, corymbose Dingren and Martin's Richmond tree Japanese Hill Cherry vs Korean Hill Cherry Comments Ron made on three occasions about both types of hill cherry, mostly Jacobson and Kuitert quotes What cherry? Single white, early mid-season, Wendy's tree The 5th and Collingwood tree, may be one of the hill cherries All the Pandora postings that were mixed in with the above postings have been moved to Pandora - Single pinky white, mid-season, upright spreading
