Native to Japan.
One of Victoria's most common trees: 698 on the map, about 1 in 50 trees (#12 of 384 species).
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A hybrid cherry of between Prunus speciosa (Oshima zakura) as father plant and Prunus pendula f. ascendens (Edo higan) as mother. It is a clone from a single tree and propagated by grafting to all over the world.