Storm-Stripped Cherry Trees Bloom Early
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<i> Reuters</i>
TOKYO — Cherry trees are blooming early in parts of southern Japan--more than six months early.
The reason, weather experts believe, is the typhoon that hit the region last month and blew off leaves, fooling the trees into thinking it was springtime.
“They mistook the falling of the leaves for natural defoliation,” Japan Weather Assn. spokeswoman Kiwako Shimizu said Wednesday.
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