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n. 1 The blossom of the cherry tree. 2 (context heraldiccharge English) A stylized depiction of the blossom of the cherry tree, as used in Japanese mon.
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A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura after the Japanese (桜 or 櫻; さくら).
Cherry blossom is speculated to be native to the Himalayas. Currently it is widely distributed, especially in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere including Japan, China, Korea, Europe, West Siberia, India, Canada, and the United States. Along with the chrysanthemum, the cherry blossom is considered the national flower of Japan.
Many of the varieties that have been cultivated for ornamental use do not produce fruit. Edible cherries generally come from cultivars of the related species Prunus avium and Prunus cerasus. Cherry blossom are also closely related to other Prunus trees such as the almond, peach, plum and apricot and more distantly to apples, pears and roses.
Cherry Blossom is a type of chocolate bar in Canada produced by Hershey Canada Inc.. Hershey used to produce it at its Canadian manufacturing facility in Smiths Falls, Ontario. It is now produced in Mexico.
The candy had been manufactured since the 1890s by the Walter M. Lowney Company of Canada which was taken over by Hershey as a subsidiary brand. The facility in Smith Falls, north-east of Kingston, Ontario is now closed.
It consists of a maraschino cherry and cherry syrup surrounded by a mixture of chocolate, coconut and roasted peanut pieces. The candy is sold in an individually wrapped 45-gram portion, packaged in a close-fitting cardboard box.
Contrary to common myth, filling is not injected inside the chocolate. The cherry candy is coated with an enzyme, invertase, that breaks down the solid into a liquid over the next 1 to 2 weeks.
The Cherry Blossom candy provides 210 calories of food energy. It contains 30% fat, 10% carbohydrate and 4% fiber by weight and a further 2 grams of protein.
Cherry blossom or Sakura is the blossom of cherry trees, genus Prunus.
Cherry blossom or Cherry blossoms may also refer to:
- Cherry Blossoms (film), a 2008 German film directed by Doris Dörrie
- Cherry Blossom (song), a 1981 Seiko Matsuda song
- Cherry Blossoms (marriage agency), a marriage agency
- Sakura (cigarette), Japanese cigarettes produced by Japan Tobacco
- Cherry Blossoms, nickname for the Japan national rugby union team
- Cherry Blossom (candy), a type of chocolate bar produced by Hershey Canada Inc
- A brand of British shoe polish made by Grangers International Ltd
Usage examples of "cherry blossom".
Faint odour of the lion house in the bedroom and it was freezing cold, although, outside, a good deal of April sunshine and the first white flakes of cherry blossom shaking loose from the tight buds.
Two machete-like fighters escorted it, and one peeled off as if to spear CHERRY BLOSSOM.
Near the dais, in a niche, was a small earthenware vase with a single spray of cherry blossom and this filled the room with color and fragrance.
Kiku was indeed as fragile as the cherry blossom for which she was named, or so it at first seemed to Shisei.
A sharp breeze was already scattering pink cherry blossom over the dark water like confetti.
If I leave her here I won't see her for weeks, and life is only a cherry blossom exposed to a vagrant wind that knows no master--my life, hers, all life.
As she drove slowly back to Penscombe, admiring the wild cherry blossom and the pale green spring leaves, she reflected that it was a good thing she’.
In the final event, you will do what fate and your breeding dictate, and my advice will affect your future as much as a cherry blossom falling into the river alters its course.