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Covered Sakurajima Fruit Tree Blossoms

Things to See in Kagoshima, Japan

Blossoum on fruit trees are covered to protect the delicate blooms from the falling ash and small rocks that often erupt from Mount Sakurajima.
Covered Sakurajima Fruit Tree Blossoms

Covered Sakurajima Fruit Tree Blossoms

Kagoshima Photo (c) Linda Garrison
The soil surrounding Mount Sakurajima grows some of the world's largest daikon radishes. These Sakurajima Mammoth Radishes sometimes grow to more than 100 pounds in Japan, but only about 15 pounds when grown elsewhere. Farmers also grow very tiny oranges, which must be a strange contradiction to the giant radishes.

Most of the covered fruit trees we saw were loquats (Japanese plums).

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