It is said that, after that, his colleagues and citizens of the city planted the saplings left at a railway station and the cherries have come to be called 'Aloha zakura cherry.'
その後、鉄道駅に残された苗木を、同僚や市民が植えたとされ、それらの桜を「アロハ桜」と呼ぶようになったという。