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Shiro TSUYUZAKI
Plant community ecology / Environmental conservation

Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

(Update on December 23 2007)

Sweet Tea Vine
Gynostemma pentaphyllum (Thunb.) Makino
[Cucurbitaceae]

Ama·cha·zuru (アマチャヅル, 甘茶蔓)

ama = sweet, cha = tea, zuru = vine

Distribution: Japan (from Hokkaido to Ryukyu), Korea, China, Malaysia, India


Gynostemma pentaphyllum in Hokkaido

Gynostemma Gynostemma
In Hokkaido University Campus on September 19 2007.


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