The eucalyptus that survived the atomic bomb

I learned a long time ago about the survivor trees from Hiroshima (called hibaku jumoku in Japanese), the trees that survived the atomic explosion, holly trees, silent witnesses of a horrific event that should never repeat...

Here is one of the hibaku jumoku, the Giant Eucalyptus located just 740 meters away from the epicenter of the explosion, near the Main Gate of the Hiroshima Castle.
This eucalyptus was planted at the beginning of the 20th century and it has an amazing strength: a typhoon from 1971 tore it at 2.5 meters above the ground, but it managed to grow again...