Cherry Blossoms Opened

One year has passed and we can enjoy again a typical beauty of the spring. Some kinds of cherry opened at the same time this year. The flowering time becomes earlier year by year.

This cherry is probably Cerasus jamasakura, a wild species. The tree grows very tall.

These are Cerasus × yedoensis ‘Somei-yoshino’, a crossbreed kind. The tree shape is different from the above one. 

The blossoms of this kind are really gorgeous. 

Meteorological agency says that Somei-Yoshino blossoms open on the day when the sum total of daily highest temperatures from 1st February reaches 600℃.　I've never heard of it before!

 

Butterbur Scapes Have Come Out

I found Japanese butterburs. Butterbur scape tempra is sweet and bitter. It's a typical spring wild vegetable. If they grow more than the size of this image, they become too bitter to eat. Don't miss the time! 蜂頭菜芽天婦羅好食呀.

It has many scapes.

 

Don't you think you got a lovely bouquet from Spring?

Forked-stem Adonis （Adonis Ramosa） 福壽草

When I find these yellow flowers, I  feel the spring has really come even if the temperature is still low.

They keep opening under the sunshine and close petals in the evening. The petals have an important role to gather the sun heat in the center of the flower so that insects can be induced to come to this flower by that heat.