I started the day with a tree, and I'm going to end today with one, too. This is a kaki or persimmon tree in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. It's the offspring of a hibakujumoku, or survivor tree, which was one of the few living things to survive the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki in Japan 80 years ago today. It was given to Glasgow in 2002 by the Japanese as a symbol of peace.

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