SHIZUOKA -- Two clone seedlings of a Hagoromo no Matsu pine tree -- on which legend has it that a heavenly maiden placed her robes -- are being celebrated for their homecoming to the Miho no Matsubara pine forest in Shizuoka City.
The city and other entities had asked the Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute's Forest Tree Breeding Center in Hitachi, Ibaraki Prefecture, to propagate the pine tree. The center grafted branches onto the tree and grew two saplings.
