As a typhoon approached Okinawa last December, gangs of workers on mobile ladders busily set up supports for phoenix dacpylifera coconut palms and sheathed the cacti in protective covers, knowing carelessness might spell curtains for a 1,000-year-old cactus!
去年十二月，在被日本命名為「廿八號」的颱風登陸琉球前夕，一批批搭著雲梯車的工人，便忙著替海棗椰子架支柱，為仙人掌穿雨衣，因為一有疏忽，就可能使近千年的仙人掌一命嗚呼！