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(First upload on May 30 2011. August 26 2016) [ 日本語 | English ]

Kerria japonica (L.) DC.






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

Kerria (L.) DC. (ヤマブキ)
One species, K. japonica, is distributed in Japan
Yamabuki (ヤマブキ, 山吹), (Japanese) kerria
Life form: deciduous shrub < 3 m high
Distribution: China - Japan
Habitat: mountainous areas (used for gardening)

Field training on integrated environmental research (統合環境調査法実習) (出現種リスト)

Utilization: gardening → cultivars
f. albescens (Makino) Ohwi (シロバナヤマブキ, 白花山吹)
f. plena C. K. Schn. (ヤエヤマブキ, 八重山吹) [syn. f. pleniflora (Wittem.) Rehder] → popular for gardening
f. stellata (Makino) Ohwi (キクザキヤマブキ, 菊咲山吹)

Kerria japonica in Hokkaido


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索引

ST4 sketch
[1] a bush. [2] a current shoot. [3] close-up of a flower. [1-3] in the experimental field of Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, on May 20 2011. I used this material 18 years before (see below). [4] near Toko Store, East Ward, Sapporo, on October 8 2013. [Sketch] Leaf = double serration. The sample was collected from the botanic garden, Faculty of Science, Hokkaido University, on May 17 1983. ⇒ floral diagram (花式)

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[5-7] a natural regeneration seen in a forest on Oi Pier Seaside Park, Tokyo, on June 3 2016.


Varieties

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[1] f. plena on a roadside of N27/E3, East Ward, Sapporo, on May 5 2012. [2/3] f. albescens at a house garden, N7/W5, North Ward, on May 19 2014.

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