日本最大的紫藤 Japan’s largest wisteria

看似傍晚紫色的彩霞，但其實它是日本最大的紫藤，位於Ashikaga花卉公園，雖然不是世界第一大，但占地仍有1990平方米，十分壯觀，紫藤是藤蔓植物，莖具纏繞性，因為藤蔓十分沉重，整個結構需以鋼鐵架支撐，才能讓遊客步行於垂掛的紫藤瀑布下。

These stunning photographs, which look like a glorious late evening sky with dashes of pink and purple, are actually pictures of Japan’s largest wisteria (or wistaria, depending on whom you ask) plant.
This plant, located in Ashikaga Flower Park in Japan, is certainly not the largest in the world, but it still comes in at an impressive 1,990 square meters (or half an acre) and dates back to around 1870 (the largest, at about 4,000 square meters, is the wisteria vine in Sierra Madre, California). Although wisterias can look like trees, they’re actually vines. Because its vines have the potential to get very heavy, this plant’s entire structure is held up on steel supports, allowing visitors to walk below its canopy and bask in the pink and purple light cast by its beautiful hanging blossoms.