Posted on 08/04/2015 2:29:25 PM PDT by dware
The history of a 390-year old bonsai tree at the National Arboretum that survived the Hiroshima atomic blast is being honored this week. Thursday marks the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.
The Japanese White Pine is in the Arboretum’s National Bonsai and Penjing Museum. The tree was donated in 1976 by bonsai master Masaru Yamaki as part of Japan’s Bicentennial gift to the American people.
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Fess up. It's you.
If it had been a banzai tree, it wouldn't have gone like that. ;') Thanks dware.
Let me cut it in half and count its rings to be sure
If it hadn’t gone through the atomic blast; the tree would be 80 feet tall.
It was 80 feet tall before the bombing; now its only Bonsai height.
LOl! Go ahead!
Be sure to save some for the fire place too!
But I thought atomic radiation turned living things into giant monsters! All of those 1950's Sci-Fi B movies said so! That tree tree should be 200ft tall, have developed a brain, two eyes and legs and be walking around by now!
And it walks.
Nope, I’m the mystery Jackalope tattooer.
Looks like a nuclear mushroom cloud...
I met a Jackalope once.........he loped away.
impressive... my dad’s unit was sent into Hiroshima shortly after the bomb dropped (maybe it was Nagasaki, not sure). He lived for almost 80 years, which is 400 years in bonsai time. Just sayin.
Classic jap sci-fi.
That is actually really cool. I had no idea we had trees that old.
Does it still glow in the dark?
The Big Tree at Goose Island State Park was named the State Champion Coastal Live Oak (Quercus virginiana) in 1969, and is one of the largest in the nation.
http://tpwd.texas.gov/state-parks/goose-island/the-big-tree
Trunk circumference: 35 feet 1.75 inches
Age: In excess of 1,000 years
Sorry, hit return too quick.
Methuselah, a bristlecone pine tree from California’s White Mountains, is thought to be almost 5,000 years old—and the oldest non-clonal tree in the world. The exact location of the gnarled, twisted Methuselah is a Forest Service secret, for its protection (that might not be it above). In 1964, a slightly older tree by the name of Prometheus was accidentally felled by a scientist who didn’t realize the tree was as old as it was.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/29879/6-oldest-trees-world
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