This small, unremarkable-looking tree by the entrance to the herb garden in Glasgow's Botanic Gardens has a surprising and poignant history which starts half a world and more than half a century away.
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This Is My Glasgow
in reply to This Is My Glasgow • • •On the 9th of August 1945, the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Nagasaki in Japan. While almost every living thing was incinerated in the blast, a Kaki tree (known in Britain as a Persimmon tree) somehow survived.
Known as a Hibakujumoku in Japanese (or a survivor tree in English), in 1994 it came under the care of Masayuki Ebinuma, an arborist. He managed to coax it to produce seeds which have been grown into saplings and sent all over the world as symbols of peace.
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