Taiwan cherry
Prunus campanulata blossoms
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Subgenus:	Cerasus
Species:	P. campanulata
Binomial name
Prunus campanulata Maxim.[1]
Synonyms
Cerasus campanulata (Maxim.) A.Vassiliev[2]

Prunus campanulata is a species of cherry native to Taiwan, widely grown as an ornamental tree, and a symbol of Nago, Okinawa in the Ryukyus. It is variously known in English as the Taiwan cherry or Formosan cherry; in Chinese: 山櫻花; pinyin: Shānyīnghuā; Japanese: �'緋桜 Kanhizakura or 緋�'桜 Hikanzakura. It was described in 1883 by Carl Johann Maximowicz.^[1]

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Prunus campanulata foliage	Two tui in a flowering P. campanulata tree

P. campanulata in bloom (Sao Paulo, Brazil)	Close-up of P. campanulata flowers (Sao Paulo, Brazil)

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