9-11 ‘Survivor Tree’ blossoms at start of spring
Posted Mar 21, 2012 02:15:59 AM.
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NEW YORK – A pear tree that miraculously survived the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack blossomed at the World Trade Center site on the first day of spring.
The “Survivor Tree”, as it’s been dubbed, was discovered amid the rubble, limbs lifeless, roots snapped, trunk blackened.
Workers freed it and it was nursed back to health in a park before it was replanted.
Now topping 9 metres four times its size in 2001, it towers above other trees in Memorial Plaza at the World Trade Center.
On Tuesday, it sprouted white blossoms, seen for the first time by visitors to the 9-11 memorial that opened last September.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the tree is a testament to New York’s “ability to endure” and “unshakeable belief in a brighter future.”
