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(First upload on January 23 2015. Last on April 9 2017) [ 日本語 | English ]

Quercus myrsinifolia Blume






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

Quercus L. (コナラ)
Shirakashi (シラカシ, 白樫/白橿), bamboo-leaf oak

Sihra = white, Kashi = oak
→ the wood is white (the bark is black)

Life form: evergreen tall tree
Distribution: southeastern China - southern Korea - Japan (south to Fukushima Prefectrue)
Habitat: in evergreen forests → climax species
Leaf: pale-white backside
Pollination: wind
Seed dispersal: gravity or cache by acorns
Utilization: street tree, wood, medicine (leaf)
Synonyms:

Cyclobalanopsis myrsinifolia (Blume) Oerst.

索引

Quercus myrsinifolia in Japan


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[1-3] at Hibiya Park, Tokyo, on December 27 2014. [4] at Okuma Garden in Waseda University, Tokyo, on March 15 2017. ⇒ bark (樹皮)

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