Environmental Education Specialist Rhiannon Summers, at left, shows a leaf that fell from a cherry tree to hikers John Wittman and Lucy Wittman of Bloomsburg and Peggy Black of Laporte. The bark on a ...

A welcome sight each spring, cherry trees provide some of the first blossoms of the season. Fragrant, single- or double-flowers cover the small tree’s leafless branches. There are two groups of cherry ...

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Cherry blossoms mean big business for Japan: each year, an estimated 63 million local and international tourists travel to and across the country to witness this candyfloss spectacle, spending $2.7bn ...