Well, folks, it's official. The Kwanzan was voted America's Favorite Cherry Tree in an Arbor Day Foundation poll. The Kwanzan won by a wide margin in the online poll, which surveyed over 6,645 people from all 50 states and more than 25 countries. The Arbor Day Foundation partnered with the National Cherry Blossom Festival.
The Kwanzan cherry tree is native to Southeast Asia. Introduced to the United States in 1903, it became famous due to its distinctive blossoms during the annual Festival in Washington, DC. The Kwanzan cherry trees come into bloom two weeks later than the Yoshino cherry trees.
Some were surprised to see Yoshino trailing, given that it is far and away the most prominent of the three along Washington, DC’s Tidal Basin. But that's the thing about nature--it continues to suprise us.
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