Sakura (Cherry Blossom)

If we are talking about the cherry blossoms, we certainly will linked with Japan.
The fact is Japan is a country with a variant of the cherry blossoms are at most about 200 more, even though such interest is not only alive and thriving in Japan, but also in Korea, China, Canada, and Germany.
Particularly in Japan, cherry blossoms are symbols associated with women, life and death. Of course with a variety of reasons.
In Japanese, the cherry blossom comes from the word "saku" and "ra". Saku which means blooming. While the "ra" in Japanese show plurals. Whereas in English, sakura known as cherry blossoms. If the scientific language of his own, known as the Prunus Jamasakura.

Cherry blossom trees not only produce beautiful flowers, but also fruitful. The fruit of the cherry tree is the Japanese cherry known as sakuranbo.
But this fruit can not be consumed at all because it tastes bitter. But it did not reduce the value of the fruit, the Japanese cherries are used as prizes at certain times.

Cherry blossom flower itself has a variety of species. Noted there are hundreds of types of flowers that live in the Japanese. Cherry blossom flower types of the most famous is Prunus Yedoensis with pink flowers and white, Cherry blossom Forest which is also pink and white, while Yaezakura white or reddish purple.
In most cities in Japan, cherry blossoms bloom and show its beauty at the end of March or in early April. Blooming flowers also showed an early season.
This is a beautiful flower season in Japan and many in use to spend time with the people closest. However, the season that many in this waiting period only lasts within a week only.
For those of us who want to witness firsthand the beauty of cherry blossoms, we do not have to come all the way to Japan. In Indonesia, precisely in the botanical gardens Cibodas, Cipanas, Cianjur grow cherry blossoms.
The legend says that there are cherry blossoms planted there in 1953 and is still growing until now. But unlike in his native country, the cherry blossoms that grow here and display their beauty in bloom around January and February.