Japan's cherry blossom database, 1,200 years old, has a new keeper

Article

• 1,200-year Japanese cherry blossom bloom record is a key climate dataset.
• Retiring professor struggled to find a successor at Osaka Metropolitan University.
• New keeper has been found; dataset tracks bloom dates as a climate proxy.

Discussion

• Surprise that no researcher at the university volunteered to continue the record.
• Commenter jokes the professor should have trained an apprentice.
• Cherry blossoms in central Europe (Poland) cited as comparably beautiful.

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