Cherry blossom season around the world - in pictures

Cherry blossom trees in bloom near the Eiffel Tower in Paris Photograph: Martin Bureau/AFP/Getty Images

A bee feeds on the pollen of a cherry blossom tree in Los Angeles Photograph: Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images

Cherry blossom trees surround the Martin Luther King memorial in Washington. This year marks 100 years since Japan gave the trees to the US as a gift Photograph: Jacquelyn Martin/AP

People row a boat under a cherry blossom tree in Sakuranomiya park in Osaka, Japan Photograph: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images

A Japanese macaque eats cherry blossom at Tokyo's Ueno zoo. Cherry blossom shoots and flowers are the macaques' favourite food Photograph: Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images

Snow covers cherry blossoms in the Munich Olympic stadium park, Germany Photograph: Joerg Koch/AP

Cherry blossom trees in bloom in front of a pagoda in Yuyuan Tan park, Beijing Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images

People walk along Tom McCall waterfront park on the banks of the Willamette river in Portland, Oregon Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP

The Jefferson memorial in Washington DC provides a backdrop to flowering cherry blossom trees along the banks of the Potomac river in Washington Photograph: Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images

Cherry blossoms trees adorn a square in central Vancouver, Canada Photograph: Liang Sen/Xinhua Press/Corbis

A couple row beneath cherry blossom trees on the moat around the Chidorigafuchi imperial palace in Tokyo Photograph: Franck Robichon/EPA

Visitors to the Keukenhof flower exhibition in Lisse, near Amsterdam walk among flowering cherry blossom trees Photograph: Peter Dejong/AP

A woman takes a photograph of cherry blossom trees in bloom in Sakuranomiya park in Osaka, Japan Photograph: Buddhika Weerasinghe/Getty Images