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(First upload on February 29 2008. Last on June 5 2020) [ 日本語 | English ]

Viburnum opulus L. var. calvescens (Rehder) Hara






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

[ V. opulus | V. edule ]

Viburnum L. (ガマズミ)
V. opulus L.
Lifeform: shrub (2-7 m high)
Habitat: sunny and wet habitats such as forest edge

Flora on Mount Usu

Seed dispersal: animal
Chromosome number: 2n = 18
var. opulus (セイヨウカンボク), European cranberry bush
Distribution: North Africa - Europe - West Asia
cv. roseum (syn. sterile, snowball) (セイヨウテマリカンボク)
var. calvescens (Rehd.) Hara
Kanboku (カンボク, 肝木), guelder rose
Distribution: China - Far East - Korea - Japan (north the central Honshu) - Sakhalin - Kuril
Synonyms:

Viburnum opulus L. var. sargentii (Koehne) Takeda, often used
Viburnum sargentii Koehne, used in China
f. flavum (Rehd.) Hara (キミノカンボク)
f. hydrangeoides (Nakai) Hara (テマリカンボク)
f. puberulum (Komar.) Sugimoto (ケカンボク)

索引

Viburnum opulus in Hokkaido


var. clavescens

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5 ST6
[1] near Muroran Marine Station, Hokkaido University, Muroran City, on August 20, 2007. [2] at a field trip near Usujiri Fisheries Station of Hokkaido University, southern Hokkaido, on June 17 2015. [3/4] near the Nishiyama Crater Group at the foot of Mount Usu on September 18 2013. [5] in the crater basin on September 19, 2008. This species is one of the common species on the volcano Mount Usu (有珠山). [6] along Nan hu (南湖) in Changchun City, Jilin Prvince, northeastern China, on June 8 2017. Records: along a walkboard to go Todowara in Notsuke Peninsula, eastern Hokkaido, on August 28 2020.

f. hydrangeoides

ST1 ST2
[1/2] at the backyard of the Experimental Forest of the University of Tokyo, Furano, central Hokkaido, on June 26 2017.


var. opulus

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] cv. roseum in front of a barbershop, N26/W2, East Ward, Sapporo, on May 21 2020.

Viburnum edule (Michaux) Raf.


Mooseberry / Squashberry
No Japanese name (* ヘラジカカンボク, 試訳 tentative translation)
Lifeform: deciduous shrub
Distribution: Alaska - Canada
Habitat: conniferous forest floor

Fire ecology (火災生態学)

Synonyms:

Viburnum pauciflorum La Pylaie ex Torr. et A. Gray
Viburnum opulus var. edule Michx.

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1] A bush created by V. edule. [2] A shurb. [3] Close-up. In front of the the entrance of Calibou Poker Creeks, Alaska, on August 12 2009.

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