Weeping willow, eat your heart out. The Shidare-zakura (literally ‘weeping cherry tree’) bloom is another human-made cultivar ...

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The trees exchange carbon dioxide and oxygen with the atmosphere through little “mouths” in their leaves and tiny “windows” in their bark.

A weeping cherry tree, which is said to be 600 years old, is blooming at a temple northwest of Tokyo. There are about 30 weeping trees at the Seiunji temple in the city of Chichibu, Saitama ...