Posts Tagged ‘Nagasaki’
The Nagasaki Flame Tree Lives On Thanks to Japanese Arborist Masayuki Ebinuma
“The mother tree survived the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.” August 9, 1945 On this day, Japanese arborist Masayuki Ebinuma propagated a new generation of flame trees from the mother tree. The mother tree survived the atomic bomb on Nagasaki. Today, one of the propagated Flame Trees is now located at the Glasgow Botanic Garden.…
Read MoreBotanist Carl Peter Thunberg’s Ingenious Method of Gathering Hydrangea Clippings in Japan
“Ever the clever end-rounder, Carl devised a strategy to obtain botanical samples: he bought a goat.” August 8, 1828 On this day, the botanist Carl Peter Thunberg, the father of South African botany, died. He was a student of Carl Linnaeus and worked as a botanist for the Dutch East India Company. After botanizing in…
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