Flowers can be over an inch in diameter. This compact tree with its arched drooping branches is ideal for small spaces. It is also called Cheal's weeping cherry. From three to six flowers hang in pendulous clusters on this medium-sized variety. Shell pink buds open to semi-double white or faintly pink flowers.
Autumn color is yellow and orange.
Plant hunter Collingwood Ingram is credited with reintroducing this variety. Ingram found a tree in a garden in Sussex, England, that had been sent long before from Japan. He was able to identify it from an 18th-century Japanese print as a variety long extinct in its native land. Copious single white blossoms are small but dramatically highlighted by reddish-bronze foliage. Prunus serrulata 'Taoyame' Scions of this variety were sent from Japan in 1929 from a tree near the Hirano Shrine in Kyoto.