Saturday, June 19, 2010

Hitachi Tree

Hitachi Ads in Shinkansen, the ads featured the Hawaii Monkey Pod Tree.

The same tree featured in the ads.

The tree, which is familiarly referred to by several nicknames such as the "Hitachi Tree" and "Kono ki nanno ki" (What is this tree?) in Japan, is a monkey pod tree about 130 years old in the Moanalua Gardens in the Oafu Island of Hawaii.
There are many varieties of monkey pod tree in this park, and the "Hitachi Tree" with a height of nearly 25 meters, a maximum branch width of nearly 40 meters and a circumference of nearly 7 meters has an exceptionally magnificent and beautiful appearance
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