Chinese Name：櫻石，齒菊石，櫻桃花石，達碧茲堇青石(櫻石品種)
English Name：Cherry Blossom Stone, Cerasite, Sakura Ishi, Trapiche Cordierite (Variety Cerasite)
Chemical Composition of Mica：Mica: X2Y4‧6Z8O20(OH,F)4
X = Sodium, Potassium, Calcium or Barium
Y = Aluminium, Magnesium  or Iron
Z = Silicon, Iron III or Aluminium
Locality： Kikuchi, Kyoto, Japan
Remarks：Cerasite is a pseudomorph of cordierite and indialite. A pseudomorph is a mineral that is altered by another mineral through a chemical process. The mineral retains it's orginal shape, but is replaced by a different mineral. In this case muscovite(mica) replaces the cordierite and indialite resulting in beautiful flower like patterns.

Name: named for 'ceras'=cherry blossoms.
Indialite + cordierite intergrowth of trapiche habit, named for its resemblance to flower petals. Generally altered largely or entitely to musocvite or "sericite"

The name "Trapiche" comes from tra.pi.che (de azúcar), meaning "of sugar." The term trapiche was fist used for "trapiche emeralds", are named for the grinding wheel used to process sugarcane in the region of Colombia, South America where they are most often found.

The designation "trapiche" refers to a growth phenomenon that has been defined by the skeletal and sectoral growth of a crystal, yielding a fixed star when observed in sections perpendicular to the c-and optic axis of the crystals (Schmetzer et al., 2011).

Gem types which are found to have the trapiche pattern included: Emerald, Chiastolite, Corundum(both ruby and sapphire), Tourmaline, Garnet, Spinel, Aquamarine and Quartz