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nintrader t1_jcyoe6a wrote

The only way to get the authentic experience is to eat the blossoms straight from the trees, otherwise it's just a pale imitation

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seaweedstampede t1_jcyxmed wrote

The oldest dc residents have giraffe-like necks exactly for this purpose and the reason you don't see many of them anymore is gentrification

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DC-COVID-TRASH t1_jczrkv2 wrote

they're only blossoms if the trees are in blossom, France actually

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__mud__ t1_jd0b1dy wrote

Precisely. What we have here are cherry sparkling flower trees

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Stardust_Particle t1_jd050mh wrote

Please don’t give tourists and others this idea or they’ll be breaking branches to try this and exposing trees to disease.

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sagarnola89 t1_jd2yk4j wrote

I'm hoping the DC reddit thread doesn't attract too many tourists... but I could be wrong.

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