White House Tree: Macron’s Sapling Disappears
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A tree gifted to US President Donald Trump by French President Emmanuel Macron has gone missing from the White House lawn.
Both presidents planted the sapling, taken from the site of a World War One battle in north-east France, last week.
Macron said the tree would be a reminder of "these ties that bind us".
But a Reuters photographer on Saturday took a shot of only a yellow patch of grass where the tree once stood. The French ambassador to the US later tweeted the sapling was in quarantine.
The tree, a European sessile oak, came from the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood, which took place in the summer of 1918.
Nearly 2,000 US soldiers died in the battle north-east of Paris.
Yet only four days after it was planted, the sapling has disappeared.
With no official reason given for the sapling mystery, speculation began online about the tree's fate.
The tree, a European sessile oak, came from the site of the Battle of Belleau Wood, which took place in the summer of 1918.
Nearly 2,000 US soldiers died in the battle north-east of Paris.
Yet only four days after it was planted, the sapling has disappeared.
With no official reason given for the sapling mystery, speculation began online about the tree's fate.
French radio network Franceinfo quoted gardening site gerbaud.com, which says this type of oak is better planted in autumn, giving it time to grow deep roots "to face the drought of the following summer".
President Macron's gift quickly became an internet sensation, with a photo of the two men shoveling earth onto the sapling quickly turning into a meme.
Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team
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