Every year around this time, about 350 wisteria trees bloom light purple and white in Tochigi Prefecture's Ashikaga Flower Park. The 160-year-old trees are supported by a trellis that stretches ...

Hysteria over Japanese wisteria might be overstating ... The trees stand on a 3,000-square-meter wisteria trellis at Susanoo Shrine, where many other plants are also in bloom.

The museum, which sits on a 29,000-square-meter site, has been converted from the traditional Japanese ... the large wisteria tree produces flowers growing along a trellis measuring 80 tatami ...