A living relic of history stands in a quiet corner of a Japanese seaside town, its thick gnarled branches stretching skyward as if whispering secrets to the breeze. The sacred camphor tree at Kinomiya ...
After an extremely wet winter, why would camphor trees wilt? I've seen two incidents of this in as many weeks: mature camphor trees with all of the foliage on one or two of the main limbs wilting and ...