Six stages of cherry blossoms
Forty thousand cherry trees bloom in Vancouver in the spring. Find a cherry tree in your neighbourhood and watch as the buds develop into fully grown flowers in just a few weeks.
- Stage one: green round buds
- Stage two: florets visible
- Stage three: extension of florets
- Stage four: peduncle elongation
- Stage five: fluffy white petals
- Stage six: peak bloom
Since stage one can last a long time it’s when florets become visible at stage two that we can predict peak bloom is about 20 days away.
The photos feature the buds and blossoms of an Akebono cherry tree, but the stages of development are very similar for all cultivars of cherry blossoms.
