A rhodonite variety in which fine black specks are scattered across a pale pink ground. The black is manganese oxide, and the pattern suggested rain falling on cherry blossoms—hence the name.

Mineralogically identical to standard rhodonite—a manganese silicate. The difference lies only in how the black appears: not as heavy veins, but as a fine scattering of points. A different pattern, and the same mineral receives a different name.

Primarily from Brazil and Peru. "Sakura rain"—named through a Japanese sensibility, though the stone and the name were born thousands of kilometres apart.