term to be used for logically grouping together historically the 

 noteworthy Japanese flowering cherry selections of unknown 

 parentage. 



(2) To establish the chronological priority for reusing 

 romanized fancy names for Japanese flowering cherries that were 

 discarded by Miyoshi and other authors during the early 20th 

 century when they erected new replacement Latin names and 

 botanical ranks. 



By placing Japanese flowering cherries together under the 

 collective name "Sato-zakura group" without species designations, 

 these plants will be clearly set apart for the first time from all other 

 botanical taxa of Prunus. In doing this, the Prunus species, which 

 were once confusingly misapplied to classify these cherries, will no 

 longer have to be considered. P. (Sato-zakura group) cv. 

 Amanogawa and P. (Sato-zakura group) cv. Fugenzo illustrate the 

 proper use of this collective name as defined in article 18 of the 

 1980 Cultivated Code. 



