Cultivated Code for Nomenclature 

 Clarification and Explanatory Notes for 

 Cultivar List 



(1) Botanical names used in this report follow the rules and 

 recommendations of the 'International Code of Botanical 

 Nomenclature-1978" (Botanical Code). The nomenclature for 

 cultivated plants conforms to the "International Code of 

 Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants-1980" (Cultivated Code). Both 

 codes are published by the International Bureau for Plant Taxonomy 

 and Nomenclature of the International Association for Plant 

 Taxonomy, Utrecht, the Netherlands. 



(2) The use of the Sato-zakura group as a collective name to 

 include all cultivars of Japanese flowering cherries that evolved over 

 many centuries from natural hybridization and mutations of various 

 Prunus species and cultivated plants in Japan is justified in articles 

 18-19 of the Cultivated Code. 



(3) The publication and use of cultivar names of Japanese 

 flowering cherries concur with articles 33-34 of the Cultivated 

 Code. 



(4) All names in the Sato-zakura group validated in this 

 publication are listed in alphabetical order. Valid names and all 

 earliest acceptable dates for their validation in accordance with 

 articles 36-42 of the Cultivated Code appear in boldface type. 



(5) The priority for reusing romanized fancy names for Japanese 

 flowering cherries to replace the new Latin epithets and botanical 

 ranks erected by Miyoshi and other authors in the early 20th 

 century is established in articles 36-48 of the Cultivated Code. 



(6) An asterisk after a valid cultivar name indicates that the 

 Japanese flowering cherry selection is documented by the U.S. 

 National Arboretum as having been in cultivation since 1972. 



(7) Latin epithets are retained for cultivar names when by 

 priority they predate any other name. For example, floribunda was 

 first established by Miyoshi in 1922 as a forma; the synonym f. 

 juzukakezakura for cv. Floribunda was published for the same plant 

 by Miyoshi in 1927. Accordingly, cv. Floribunda must be used. 



(8) In preparing this publication, the authors had some 

 difficulty in romanizing or representing Japanese names and terms 

 in English by letters of the Roman alphabet. Typical problems 

 were — 



(a) Japanese names in kanji (characters) can be pronounced 

 in more than one way, resulting in different written representations. 

 For example, "sekiyama" may appear in English as "sekizan" or 

 "kanzan"; "taguiarashi" can be represented as "ruiran," "ruiarashi," 



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