KYOTO—An ume blossom that sprouted at the Kitano Tenmangu shrine here in early March is a world first that bloomed on a cloned Japanese apricot tree using tissue culture technology. The dark ...

True to its name, the neighborhood was known for its ume trees since before the Meiji Era (1868-1912). But disaster struck in 2009 when a disease, which causes spotting on petals and leaves ...

due in no small part to the roughly 3,000 ume trees that grow within the garden’s grounds, representing over a hundred different subspecies of the flower which range in color from pure white to a deep ...