It is located in Shukkeien Gardens, once the formal garden for the exclusive use of the lord of Hiroshima Castle. The castle was destroyed in the blast but has since been rebuilt. Follow BBC ...

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Disaster-hit Chilean park sows seeds of fire resistance After a wildfire that devastated Chile's largest botanical garden, the century-old park has planted thousands of native trees that it hopes are ...

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Japanese atomic bomb survivors, or hibakusha, have donated seeds of a gingko tree that endured the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima to a botanical garden at the University of Oslo. Hibakusha from ...