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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 August 3 2009)

Tilia maximowicziana Shirasawa [Tiliaceae]

Sometimes assigned in Malvaceae

Oobabodaiju (オオバボダイジュ, 大葉菩提樹)

Lifeform: deciduous tree
Distribution: northern Japan
Habitat: common in forests
Seed dispersal: animal


Tilia L. (linden) in Hokkaido

T. maximowicziana Shirasawa (オオバボダイジュ)

- var. yesoana (Nakai) Tatewaki (モイワボダイジュ) [less hairs on the greenish abaxial side of leaf]

T. japonica (Miq.) Simonkai (シナノキ) [hairless leaf]

- var. leiocarpa Nakai (ケナシシナノキ) [not distributed in Hokkaido]


Tilia maximowicziana in Hokkaido

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At a forest edge near Tokai University Dai-yon High School on May 26 2009


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