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(First upload on September 9 2010. Last on June 28 2013) [ 日本語 | English ]

Chamaedaphne calyculata (L.) Moench






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

Chamaedaphne Moench (ホロムイツツジ) in Japan
Etymology: chamai (Gr. = low, on the ground) + daphne (Gr. = laurel) → dwaraf laurel
Horomuitsutsuji (ホロムイツツジ, 幌向躑躅), leatherleaf

Seven Horomui Herbs (ホロムイ七草)

Yachitsutsuji (ヤチツツジ, 谷地躑躅)
Life form: dwarf shrub < 1.5 m
Distribution: cool temperate Asia, northern Europe, Russia, and northern America
Habitat: wetlands (湿原) → peat bog, such as Picea mariana forest Varieties in the world

var. angustifolia (Ait.) Rehd.
var. latifolia (Ait.) Fern.
var. nana (Lodd.) E. Busch: leaves < ca. 1 cm long

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Chamaedaphne calyculata in the Northern Hemisphere


Alaska

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[1] on Sphagnum mat. [2] a shoot. [3] close-up. On a slope in Poker Flats near Fairbanks, Alaska, six years after a wildfire on August 11 2010.

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[4] above-ground shoots with flowers. [5] close-up of flowers. [4/5] on a slope in Poker Flats, eight years after a wildfire on August 13 2012.

Hokkaido

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[6/7] establising with Empetrum nigrum in an experimental site for detecting the effects of tephra on revegetation, Sarobetsu Mire (サロベツ湿原), northern Hokkaido, on May 24 2013.

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