I’d never heard of this international tree exchange until last week, when I got an email from Shigeki Minami, editor of the Tsuyama Asahi newspaper in Japan. It turns out the Kitty Hawk pine ...

"This has happened in the past, but I don't remember seeing something of this scale," Hiroyuki Wada, a tree doctor at the Flower Association of Japan told local outlet NHK. Mr Wada said that the ...