Essay 01 About Japanese Sakura Today I just learned an interesting fact about Sakura on TV show. Sakura, or cherry blossom, is one of the most popular trees in Japan. As the spring comes after the cold winter, they starts to bloom all at once. That’s very beautiful. Japanese people love them. We go outside to see these beautiful blossoms every year, it's one of our culture. This beautiful bloom doesn’t last so long. It’s only for a week. This limited bloom makes Sakura more beautiful and special. I’ve never thought about why they bloom all at once. I took it for granted. Of course, temperature change is important for plants to bloom though, that is not enough to explain such a simultaneous bloom. Actually, Most of Sakura that grow in Japan is called “Somei Yoshino”. And this is the answer, all these trees have the same DNA. Somei Yoshino was born a few hundreds years ago. And it happened to be very beautiful Sakura. So people tried to breed it. But Sakura can’t self-breed. They needs another individual to bleed just like human. That means children can't have exactly the same DNA as Somei Yoshino. So the people back then bred it by "tsugiki", that is the way to make clones from a single parent. Somei Yoshino was spread through Japan over long years. This is why Japan has such a beautiful simultaneous Sakura blooms.