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(First upload on December 26 2009. Last on May 19 2017) [ 日本語 | English ]

Litsea coreana H. Leveill






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

Kagonoki (カゴノキ, 鹿子之木), sword-leaf litsea
The Japanese common name is originated from collated spots or dapple patterns, that is called 'Kago (鹿子模様)' in Japanese, on the well-developed bark.
Lifeform: evergreen tree < 15 m high
Distribution: China - Korea - Japan (south to Kanto District, central Honshu)
Habitat: forests (森林)
Flower: dioecious plant (female flowers attached with vestigial stamens)
Syonnyms:

Actinodaphne lancifolia (Sieb. et Zucc.) Meisn.
Litsea lancifolia auct. non (Roxb. ex Nees) Benth. et Hook.f. ex Fern.-Vill.

索引

Litsea Lam. in Japan


L. acuminata (Blume) Sa. Kurata (バリバリノキ)
L. citriodora (Sieb. et Zucc.) Hatusima (アオモジ)
L. coreana H. Leveill (カゴノキ)
L. cubeba (Lour.) Pers. (タイワンクロモジ)
L. japonica (Thunb.) Jussieu (ハマビワ)

Litsea coreana in Japan


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[1-3] at Rakuju-en Garden, Mishima, on November 18 2009. [4] in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo, on March 16 2017 ⇒ bark (dapple pattern)

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