[11][12][13][14] In 1901, Yoshino cherry was given a scientific name Prunus yedoensis by Jinzō Matsumura after its place of origin Yedo (current day Tokyo).

After Ernest Henry Wilson suggested Yoshino cherry is a hybrid between Prunus subhirtella var.

In 2016, Katsuki et al. proposed a new name Cerasus × nudiflora after king cherry was found to be a hybrid by Cho in 2014 and shown to be genetically distinct from Prunus × yedoensis.

[1] The Korean name wangbeonnamu (왕벚나무, king cherry) was created in 1963 when the Korean official plant resource survey team found three trees, until then it was called sakuranamu (사쿠라나무, sakura) or teolbeonnamu (털벚나무, hairy cherry).

[22] In 1962, the first Korean official plant resource survey team was established and found three trees.

ascendens (Edo higan) and Prunus donarium (Yamazakura) and king cherry is rare in number, around 10 individuals, having been found in a half century.

[23][Note 2] In 1998, Kim Chan-soo reported that 33 king cherry trees were found around Mt.

When Yo Takenaka went to the Jeju Island in 1933, he observed that the king cherry's hairs on calyx lobes and on the lower side of leaves were less numerous, and the peduncles were shorter.

[24] In 1998, Chan-soo Kim studied the morphological variation on 18 characters in flowers, leaves, fruits, and seeds.

[41] The Warm-Temperate and Subtropical Forest Research Center has developed a conservation area of 90,000 m2 since 2000 and is now cultivating 3,000 king cherry trees.

The center plans to expand the area to 250,000 m2 by 2022 and to cultivate a total of 20,000 king cherry trees.