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<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_1_1406006476540_11303" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <span class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406168543245_4821" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_6_1406006476540_23" style="line-height: 1.22em;">These stunning photographs, which look like a glorious late evening sky with dashes of pink and purple,</span> are actually pictures of Japan’s largest wisteria (or wistaria, depending on whom you ask) plant.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_1_1406006476540_11286" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <span class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406168543245_4820" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 1.22em;"><span style="color: #444444;">This plant, located in Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan, is certainly not the largest in the world, but it still comes in at an impressive 1,990 square meters (or half an acre) and <span class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" style="line-height: 1.22em;"><span class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" style="line-height: 1.22em;">dates back to around 1870 </span></span>(the largest, at about 4,000 square meters, is the wisteria vine in Sierra Madre, California). Although wisterias can look like trees, they’re actually vines. Because its vines have the potential to get very heavy, this plant’s entire structure is held up on steel supports, allowing visitors to walk below its canopy and bask in the pink and purple light cast by its beautiful hanging blossoms.</span></span></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_6_1406006476540_18" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <br class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" clear="none" style="line-height: 1.22em;" /></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_1_1406006476540_11300" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #196ad4;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 1.22em;"><img alt="oldest-wisteria-tree-ashikaga-japan-1" class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" height="482" id="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846yiv1225939650yui_3_16_0_1_1406006476540_11298" src="http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/oldest-wisteria-tree-ashikaga-japan-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></span></span></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406168543245_4922" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406168543245_4923" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #196ad4;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: 1.22em;"><img alt="alt" class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" height="424" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1406168543245_4924" src="http://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/oldest-wisteria-tree-ashikaga-japan-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.22em;" width="640" /></span></span></div> <div class="yiv7153664802ygrps-yiv-377481846" style="background-color: white; font-family: HelveticaNeue-Light, 'Helvetica Neue Light', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 19px; line-height: 22.773332595825195px; 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These stunning photographs, which look like a glorious late evening sky with dashes of pink and purple,  are actually pictures of Japan’s ...

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