Wilson Stump on Yakushima Island, Japan
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Wilson Stump on Yakushima Island, Japan
It’s possible that the residents of Yakushima Island knew the secret of this giant, hollowed-out Japanese cedar stump long before Ernest Henry Wilson found it sometime in 1914. But it was Wilson, an English plant collector, who wrote about the stump that’s not only big enough for several people to walk around in, but with an opening at the top of the stump in the shape of a Valentine. Who knew nature had a romantic side?
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