A flower that only blooms once every 10 years is blooming at Mukogawa Danchi.
(This tip was sent in by Fuko-san.)
Here it is↓
It’s a sago palm (sotetsu). The one blooming in the middle is the sago palm flower that only blooms once every 10 years. Apparently, there were two of them in spots that could be found at about human height.
Close-up↓
It has the kind of look that might make you go “whoa…”. It’s shaped like a basketball and measures about 30 cm across. Apparently, it has been around since the Jurassic period, the age of dinosaurs, and is known as a “living fossil.”
Here it is on the map↓
Around the plaza with the Akado-sha train car.
Around here↓
If you walk west for about one minute along the pedestrian deck above the “plaza with the Akado-sha train car,” you’ll come out to a plaza, and it’s apparently in one corner there!
By the way
Finally
The sago palm flower is said to bloom “once every 10 years,” but since it also bloomed in Nishinomiya two years ago, it’s kind of nice to think that in Nishinomiya, you might be able to see one about once every eight years. If you spot one, be sure to tell your kids with a knowing look, “This only blooms once every 10 years, you know〜”
*Fuko-san, thank you for the tip!!
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