At Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto, which is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, the god of learning who is said to have liked plum blossoms, saplings made by cloning technology from the plum tree, which is a sacred tree, have grown large and have been long-awaited for the first time. The flowers have bloomed.
The plum tree that bloomed at Kitano Tenmangu in Kyoto is a plum tree made by culturing the tissue collected from the sacred tree "Tobiume".
The oldest tree in front of the main shrine is a sacred tree, but since the age of the tree has weakened from 350 to 400 years, the shrine worked with a major housing manufacturer to create a clone with the same genetic information. A year ago, I succeeded in making a sapling.
After that, the saplings grew steadily in the precincts of Baien, and on the 4th, one of the five largest trees, about 3 meters long, bloomed for the first time a red flower with a diameter of about 3 cm.
This tree has other buds and is bulging.
Mr. Kusuhiko Higashikawa, who was waiting for the flowering of Kitano Tenmangu, said, "I was really happy that the new plum blossoms that inherited the life of the most important plum tree," Hiume "." rice field.