Japanese Flowering Dogwood

This photo is for flowers of Japanese Flowering Dogwood which is also known as Kousa Dogwood or Asian Dogwood. Here you can see a photo for single flower of Japanese Flowering Dogwood.

White Flowers of Crabapple

These white flowers are Crabapple’s one. Crabapples are deciduous trees and have several different color flowers depend of species or cultivars. Here you can see Japanese Flowering Crabapple photo.

White Japanese Flowering Cherry

In Japan we have many cultivated Japanese Flowering Cherries (may be more than 200 kinds) and there are many famous places for watching cherry blossom in all over the Japan. And when we have cherry blossom in spring, we enjoy parties under the cherry blossom. We call this party as “Hana-Mi (花見)- meaning is flower watching”.

Leaves of Japanese Tanbark Oak

This photo is for Japanese Tanbark Oak. Japanese Tanbark Oak is evergreen tree and even though this tree is called as oak, actually Tanbark Oak is not a oak (but close to oak). This tree grows 9m (30 feet) or height or more and 7.5m (25 feet) width or more.

Trees and Flowers of Japanese Camellia

This photo is for Japanese Camellia trees and flowers.

Japanese Maple - Kamagata

The photo for a kind of Japanese Maple. This Maple is Kamagata species. This Japanese Maple grow up to 1.8 m (6 feet) and good for planting in a pot.

Branch of Japanese Cedar

This photo is for a branch of Japanese Cedar.

Japanese Chestnut Tree

One more photo for Japanese Chestnut. Both of picture is not good at all—sorry. In near future I’ll take better one.

Japanese Crepemyrtle Photo

As I mentioned in previous post, Crepe Myrtle trees are called “monkey slip tree (Saru Suberi)” in Japan. See now you can understand from the picture how slippery this tree is. (But actually I have never seen a monkey slip and fall down from this tree.)