What's the name of this Oriental plant/tree? and Darmera peltata #4

What's the name of this Oriental plant/tree?

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The tree with the purple flowers, this one in particular is in Japan.


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Answer by daylily
It's a weeping cherry (Prunus subhirtella (Pendula)). The tree droops towards the ground, and has a great inflorescence in the spring. When the flowers fall they look like a blanket of snow. This plant is for ornamental use only, not to grow cherries. See other images here:

www.bellarmine.edu/faculty/drobinson/WeepingCherry.asp

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Darmera peltata #4


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Saxifragaceae - S.W. Oregon and N.W. California
Formerly Peltiphyllum peltatum
Indian Rhubarb, Umbrella Plant
Shown: Detail of emergent inflorescence

"Darmera peltata (Indian rhubarb or, ambiguously, "umbrella plant") is the only species within the genus Darmera in the family Saxifragaceae. It is a slowly-spreading rhizomatous perennial from mountain streamsides in woodland in the western United States (southwestern Oregon to northwestern California).

"In late spring the flowers emerge before the leaves, with rounded cymes of numerous five-petalled white to bright pink flowers (measuring up to 1.5cm across each) borne on flower stems up to 2m long. The leaves are peltate, rounded, deeply lobed, coarsely-toothed, conspicuously veined and dark green, also on stems up to 2m in height. The leaves turn red in autumn.

"In gardens, Darmera peltata flourishes in pond margins and bog gardens, where it forms an imposing umbrella-like clump. It is suited to smaller gardens where there is no room for Gunnera manicata or Gunnera tinctoria, unrelated plants that are somewhat similar in appearance, but much larger." (Wikipedia)

Mature leaves to 60 cm across

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Photographed in San Francisco Botanical Garden - San Francisco, California

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