Nature & geography・Shimonoseki & Kanmon
Sun Yat-sen lotusSonbun ren
Also known as: 孫文蓮・孫文の蓮
A lotus grown from one of four seeds that Sun Yat-sen, the “father of the Chinese revolution”, gave to a supporter in Chofu in 1918. The lotus botanist Ohga Ichiro took on the germination, one seed sprouted in 1962, and the plant, named the Sun Yat-sen lotus, was divided into Chofu Garden in 1994.
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