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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 March 6 2011)

False Spiraea
Sorbaria sorbifolia (L.) A. Br. [Rosaceae]

Hozakinanakamado (ホザキナナカマド, 穂咲七竈)

Life form: deciduous shrub
Distribution: ttemperate Asia Asia (Siberia - Far East - China - Korea - northern Japan)
Habitat: forest edges on mountains

Synonyms

Schizonotus sorbifolius (L.) Lindl.
Spiraea sorbifolia L.


Sorbaria A. Braun in Japan

S. kirilowii (Regel) Maxim. (ニワナナカマド): exotic, gardening shrub
S. sorbifolia (L.) A. Br. (ホザキナナカマド)

f. incerta (C. K. Schn.) Kitagawa (エゾホザキナナカマド)


Sorbaria sorbifolia in Hokkaido

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On the slope of Mount Onnebetsu, northeast Hokkaido.


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