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Cerasus speciosa (Koidz.) H. Ohba, a deciduous broad-leaved tree, is native to the Izu Islands of Japan, and has now been reported from many coastal forests in the Tohoku region. However, C. speciosa was not mentioned in four articles dealing with coastal forests of the Sendai Gulf featured in Volume 19, Issue 2 of this journal (Disturbance and recovery of the coastal-ecotone vegetation following the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami). We suspect that inaccurate species identification, and not the actual absence of C. speciosa, is to blame, and hope that future research on coastal forests of the Sendai Gulf will remedy this.
