I’d never heard of this international tree exchange until last week, when I got an email from Shigeki Minami, editor of the Tsuyama Asahi newspaper in Japan. It turns out the Kitty Hawk pine ...

"This has happened in the past, but I don't remember seeing something of this scale," Hiroyuki Wada, a tree doctor at the Flower Association of Japan told local outlet NHK. Mr Wada said that the ...

SHIROI, Chiba Prefecture—A pear grower here has decided to cut back on cultivation of the “king of pears ... year,” he said. In Japan, fruit-bearing pear trees were planted over 9,820 ...