A-bombed hackberry 1

@@A-bombed hackberry used to grow in a garden of HIroshima Army Hospital b efore the World War . It was a place of recreation and relaxation for th e patients. The hackberry was A-bombed 1 km northern from the poing on August 6th, 1945, 8:15 a.m., and its southern side of the trunk was burnt by the heat rays.

@@After the war, the tree remain alive with being scooped out half of it. In 1988, leaving 4 meter above the ground, the hackberry broke in suffering a direct hit from typhoon. However it put forth leaves next year, and one of the buds grew into a more than 1 meter branch in 1986 and 1987, seemed like the tree revived. But in the1988 spring the hackberry didn't come in leaf bud, yet in rainy season when it was the last chance to sprout the tree still didn't burst into leaf. In 1989, March, according to experts of a botanical gardens and landscape gardeners, the A-bombed hackberry didn't recover and withered away. The bark was going rotten which rose by touching the surface and when the spoiling went to roots the tree would fell down.

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