Cherry tree bark has little growths called lenticels that help them expel carbon dioxide. "They're little horizontal stripes in the bark, and plum trees don't have that," Shores said. Not into ...

According to the Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival, there are eight ways to tell if the blossoms you are admiring are from a cherry tree, or a plum tree. 1. The smell: True cherry blossoms only ...

Children gather under a plum tree full of blooming flowers at Nanjing Plum Blossom Mountain. One morning in March, I took Nanjing Subway line 2 and got off at Muxuyuan Station. After walking along ...

Aside from cherry trees having the horizontal rings known as lenticels, a cherry blossom’s petals are slightly serrated while the flowers blooming from a plum tree do not. Pictured here is a ...

YUGAWARA, Kanagawa Prefecture—Visitors can wander through an enchanting wonderland of pink and white flowers at the Yugawara Plum Grove’s 30th annual plum festival, which is being held here ...