Japanese flowering cherry, in Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, Merriam-Webster, 2002. URL consultato il 2 aprile 2008.
«any of certain ornamental hybrid cherries developed in Japan chiefly from two species (Prunus serrulata and P. sieboldii) that bear a profusion of white or pink usually double and often fragrant flowers followed by small inedible fruit...»
