This 144-Year-Old Wisteria In Japan Looks Like A Pink Sky

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 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 plant.
This glorious 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 

and dates back to around 1870 (the largest in the world right now, at about 4,000 square meters, is the wisteria vine in Sierra Madre, California). 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.