Sweet Cherry Plena trees at Olympic Street (5600 block) April 20, 2006.
Vancouver's over 19,000 ornamental cherry trees are bursting into bloom all along city streets, boulevards and in parks heralding the start of yet another glorious spring. In all, over 49,000 of the Park Board maintained 124,000 street trees are of the flowering variety with the cherry/plum or prunus family kicking off the annual and seasonally cadenced show.