Trumpet Flowers in Red Dot, Malaysia..Now strange Sakuras in Japan! What a season!
Just few days ago, we experienced a phenomena of trumpet trees sudden blossom here in Spore. Now this report is just in regarding these "stones" (wonder why they do not call them seeds but stones??) of cherry from space program in 2008 flowering 6 years ahead of time! And oh boy...yes, they are strange! It has 9 blooms (Number of judgement?), 5 petals (Number of grace) and in 4 places (wonder where? The 4 corners of the earth where the 4 angels stood in Rev7:1 ??? or the release of the 4 angels after sounding of the 6th trumpet by the 6th angel -Rev 9:14??...ummmmmm)
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P/S : According to the Japanese, such cherry blossoms signify mortality. In Japan, cherry blossoms also symbolize the transience of life, which is a major theme in Buddhism. The cherry-blossom tree is known for its short but brilliant blooming season, a natural process that metaphorically describes human life.
In my previous blog on the 4th Kingdom to come. Yes we are indeed being shaken from PNG with earthquake 7.8 yesterday and now Nicaragua 6.6 yesterday and even now...So when the 7th angel sound "THE KINGDOMS OF THIS WORLD ARE BECOME THE KINGDOMS OF OUR LORD, AND OF HIS CHRIST, AND HE SHALL REIGN FOR EVER And EVER." REV 9:15
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A cosmic mystery is uniting monks and scientists in Japan after a cherry tree grown from a seed that orbited the Earth for eight months bloomed years earlier than expected -- and with very surprising flowers.
The four-year-old sapling -- grown from a cherry stone that spent time aboard the International Space Station (ISS) -- burst into blossom on April 1, possibly a full six years ahead of Mother Nature's normal schedule.
Its early blooming baffled Buddhist brothers at the ancient temple in central Japan where the tree is growing.
"We are amazed to see how fast it has grown," Masahiro Kajita, chief priest at the Ganjoji temple in Gifu, told AFP by telephone.
"A stone from the original tree had never sprouted before. We are very happy because it will succeed the old tree, which is said to be 1,250 years old."
The wonder pip was among 265 harvested from the celebrated "Chujo-hime-seigan-zakura" tree, selected as part of a project to gather seeds from different kinds of cherry trees at 14 locations across Japan.
The stones were sent to the ISS in November 2008 and came back to Earth in July the following year with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, after circling the globe 4,100 times.
Some were sent for laboratory tests, but most were ferried back to their places of origin, and a selection were planted at nurseries near the Ganjoji temple.
each with just five petals,
compared with about 30 on flowers
of the parent tree.
It normally takes about 10 years for a cherry tree of the similar variety to bear its first buds.
The Ganjoji temple sapling is not the only early-flowering space cherry tree.
Of the 14 locations in which the pits were replanted, blossoms have been spotted at four places.
Surprise, surprise, outer space has blown our minds once again.
A cherry tree that spent eight months orbiting Earth in 2008 has blossomed a full six years before its species is supposed to.
According to AFP, chief priest Masahiro Kajita of Japan’s Gangō-ji Buddhist temple — the site where the seed was planted — said, “We are amazed to see how fast it has grown.”
But that’s not even the best part: the seed is the first to sprout from this ancient tree called “Chujo Hime Seigan Zakura,” which is more or less a national treasure.
Japanese School children harvested seeds for the 2008 space mission from a similar ancient tree called Takizakura (Photo: Wikipedia)
“A stone from the original tree had never sprouted before. We are very happy because it will succeed the old tree, which is said to be 1,250 years old,” said Kajita.
The seedling was part of a project that sent 14 varieties of cherry tree seeds to outer space in November of 2008, returning in July of 2009 from their galactic voyage.
Remarkably, all four sites where the seeds were planted have reported shockingly early blossoming.
Photo: JAXA
Science is really at a loss to explain how or why this happened with certainty, but there’s no denying that their time spent in space is the common factor other than their shared genealogy.
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