The Sakura ObsessionBy: Naoko Abe Each year, the flowering of cherry blossoms marks the beginning of spring. But if it werent for the pioneering work of an English eccentric, Collingwood Cherry Ingram, Japans beloved cherry blossoms could have gone extinct. Ingram first fell in love with the sakura, or cherry tree, when he visited Japan on his honeymoon in 1907 and was so taken with the plant that he brought back hundreds of cuttings with him to England. Years later,