This Bonsai Tree Was Planted In 1625, Survived The Bombing Of Hiroshima And Is Still Growing Today

Many people forget that trees are much older than human beings. In fact, there is even one Bonsai tree that has lived to be 394-years-old. It was first planted into the earth in 1625 and is now located at the United States National Arboretum in Washington D.C. A bonsai master from Japan named Masaru Yamaki gave the bonsai tree to the United States as a gift in 1976. At the time, the National Arboretum did not realize that the tree had survived the Hiroshima bombing in 1945. Yamaki and his family were just two miles away from the area where the American military dropped the atomic bomb down, which resulted in the death of 140,000 Japanese people.