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 Cherry tree of "Shichitan" in Winter@ The tree is waiting for spring. |
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Cherry tree of "Shichitan" in Winter@ The tree is waiting for spring. |
I love not only "Bonsai" small trees but also huge trees. I often go cycling in the Abukuma plateau. There are really lots of big trees on the plateau! Pictures picked up in the page were all taken by myself during cycling. I hope you enjoy watching these pictures. I keep going cycling, so I will add pictures of their appearance in four seasons.
No.1
Cherry tree of "Shichitan" The tree grows on the right hill of the "Sato" river in Satomi village. This tree is the oldest cherry tree in Ibaraki prefecture. Unfortunately he is recently losing his powers. A specialist for treatment keeps watching carefully this cherry tree. He bears nice blossoms in spring.
11 meters height, 4.74 meters trunk length, about 350 years old
Dec. 21 2000(17k),
Zelkova tree of "Sarukui" This Zelkova tree grows near Nagato community in Satomi village in Ibaraki Prefecture. The tree has lots of powers and nice distribution of roots. This tree is outstanding because there are newly planted cedar trees around him. He bears beautiful autumn leaves in fall.
23 meters height, 8.8 meters trunk length, about 550 years oldDec. 24 2000(18k),
Maple tree owned by the kikuchi family This maple tree grows in the Kikuchi family in Namata community in Satomi village in Ibaraki Prefecture. The tree has lots of powers. The Kikuchi family has a thatched house and lots of big cedar trees in his garden. I love Namata community, because there are plenty of Japanese traditional old houses.
15 meters height, 3.8 meters truck length, about 450 years oldDec. 24 2000(19k),
Oak tree in front of the "Takamiya" shrine This red oak tree grows in Osuga community, Satomi village, Ibaraki Prefecture. The tree has good distribution of roots, therefore he has lots of powers. It's very rare that oak trees grow like this in Japan. Compare to this oak tree, the shrine is poor.
15 meters height, 5.2 meter trunk length, about 500 years oldJan. 4 2001(19k),
Fir tree in the "Otsuka" shrine The Otsuka shrine has lots of huge trees. There are five Japan cedar trees and a fir tree in the garden. It used to be lots of fir in Japan, but most of them were cut down for furniture. Fortunately no one tried to cut the fir in the shrine garden.
Data unknownJan. 6 2001(40k),
Japan cedar in the "Otsuka" shrine This Japan cedar tree grows just near the Oak tree. Shrines in Japan often have huge tree, because people hesitate to cut down trees in the shrine garden. There are also twin Japan cedar trees in front of the Otsuka shrine. You can find these trees in Kamikimita community, Takahagi city, Ibaraki.
Data unknown.Jan. 6 2001(25k),
Mountain cherry tree in front of "Shougan" temple This cherry tree grows in Kamikimita community, Takahagi city, Ibaraki. People say that 30 to 50-year-old cherry trees bears well their blossoms. This tree looks more than 200 years old. But he still bears nice blossoms in spring!
Data unknown.Jan. 6 2001(17k),
"A single Japan cedar" in Hitachi city It's really funny that this Japan cedar tree grows on the route 36 of Ibaraki prefecture. The tree tells the story of development of the Hitachi copper mine. The route used to be narrow. When people wanted to expand the width of the route, no one cut him.
20 meters height, 2.5 meters trunk length, about 200 years oldJan. 4 2000(19k),