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A rosebush, which hasn't bloomed in decades, adds color to a dim chapter in history

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Archaeologists at an ex-Japanese internment² camp in Colorado found roses that may have been planted by people imprisoned³ there. These symbols of internees' resilience haven't bloomed in 80 years.

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In Colorado, a rosebush no one's seen bloom for 80 years has budded. It's a splash of color in an otherwise dim chapter of American history. From Colorado Public Radio, Ryan Warner reports.

RYAN WARNER, BYLINE⁴: This rosebush - really more of a bramble - has clung to life at Camp Amache, where the U.S. government incarcerated⁵ more than 10,000 Japanese Americans in World War II. It's a remote, hardscrabble place, and today, mostly foundations remain. But in 2012, an archaeological expedition turned up a sign of life.

CARLENE TANIGOSHI TINKER: How can we be traipsing around in this godforsaken area and then, all of a sudden, they come across these roses?

WARNER: Eighty-two-year-old Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker is a survivor⁶ of Amache - officially, the Grenada Relocation Center. She was 3 when she and her parents were forced from their home in California. For the last decade or so, she's returned to Amache to help unearth⁷ its history and her own with the help of archaeologist Bonnie Clark of the University of Denver.

BONNIE CLARK: Every time I've been at Amache, I have gone to check on the roses, especially when we've had a lot of rain, because I thought, well, maybe - I mean, they are hardy⁸. They are living. But I have never seen them bloom.

WARNER: Clark's theory is that the incarcerated Amacheans planted the roses. Many were gardeners, she says. And in hopes of learning more and finally seeing a bloom, Clark invited the Denver Botanic Gardens to take clippings. Horticulturist Mike Bone has been babying them ever since in a massive greenhouse.

We are standing⁹ in front of a bit of a mystery, aren't we?

MIKE BONE: It is. This is a rose that we've been working on that we're not sure what color it is, what the parents are.

WARNER: The cuttings are thriving, and two were sent to Carleen Tanigoshi Tinker in Fresno, Calif., where she has been babying them as well.

TANIGOSHI TINKER: I knew, first of all, of their historic importance and, secondly¹⁰, what a responsibility I had. And God, what if they died, you know? (Laughter) So it was very precious and very significant because I knew that they were representative of people who had been there, who had brought them, had propagated them. And gosh, they were showing survivorship just like we were.

WARNER: The thought was that Tanigoshi Tinker's clippings or the ones at the botanic gardens would blossom first by midsummer. But when Bonnie Clark visited Amache recently, a surprise was in store.

CLARK: Oh, my God.

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Right?

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: Is there a bloom?

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Yeah.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #2: That's what a little rain will do for you.

WARNER: The original plant, pummeled for so long by the elements, produced a bud. This happened the same year Amache became a national historic site, the same month Americans celebrate Asian heritage and the same day as an annual pilgrimage to the camp. Again, archaeologist Bonnie Clark.

CLARK: We literally¹¹ drove from the cemetery¹² at the end of the ceremony up the road to the Amache roses. We looked down, and somebody said, is that a bud? And there is a little teeny, tiny, delicate pink bud on that Amache rose for the first time anyone in 80 years that we know of has seen it.

WARNER: Carlene Tanigoshi Tinker calls it a miracle.

TANIGOSHI TINKER: These witness roses are saying, welcome home, pilgrims. So this year captures a whole bit of history.

WARNER: And now she waits for the Amache roses in her own backyard to bloom.

For NPR News, I'm Ryan Warner in Denver.