@eteinindia asked in the thread at Does anyone know the ornamental Cherry named Fukubana in Vancouver or in North America? whether anyone knows of the cultivar 'Fukubana' in North America. @Ron B posted in that thread a link to Arthur Lee Jacobson's 2001 article on Prunus in Victoria: www.arthurleej.com/a-victoriarosetrees.html, and Ron quoted the relevant section Here is an internet photo that seems to match the description. Prunus Fukubana - Flowering Cherry Tree – Mail Order Trees Here is another, much lighter in colour Prunus 'Fukubana' Flowering Cherry 13'' Pot - Hello Hello Plants & Garden Supplies (thetutuguru.com.au) I have enlisted two friends in Victoria to find these trees. The first photos I received are from David Riehm, what he took to be the only candidates on Vancouver Street. These look like 'Accolade' to me and that's what I named them. The description in Douglas Justice's Ornamental Cherries in Vancouver for 'Accolade' includes "colour strongest at top edge and palest at base" and "[flowers] abundantly produced on sparsely hairy pedicels in tightly clustered, few-flowered corymbs". Hairs are evident in the second photo. Vern Gelette has sent photos of several of the trees on Vancouver Street south of Humboldt. Most of them seem to me have flowers like the ones above. I would say all of these are 'Accolade'. I'll try to get these guys out again in two weeks to see if something else pops up. Vancouver St just north of Park Blvd West side of Vancouver St one-half block north of Park Blvd. Blossoms belong to the tree on the left Vancouver St between Oliphant and Sutlej Next tree north of the one above Vancouver between Sutlej and Pendergast Vancouver at Pendergast Vancouver St between Pendergast and Southgate
I've been looking at the Victoria BC Neighbourhood Blog lately. I wonder if Jen D's photos on Pendergast starting at https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/victoria-bc-on-vancouver-island.48873/#post-192923, for four postings, might include 'Fukubana'. Some of the photos look exactly like 'Accolade' to me, but others seem to have fluffier flowers with more pointed petals. Then there was one set with the fluffier flowers and ones that look like 'Accolade' but were on the same tree.
'Fukubana' is often deeply colored when it first comes out. And being a Higan cherry twiggy and twinkly looking. With narrower petals than 'Accolade'. fukubana cherry - Bing images
