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Dahlia pinnata Cav.






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

Dahlia Cav. (テンジクボタン)
Tenjikubotan (テンジクボタン, 天竺牡丹)
Daria (ダリア), (garden) dahlia - commonly used
Life form: perennial forb, producing tubers
Distribution: native to Mexico (probably extinct in the nature)

reported in late Edo Era (1841) firstly from Japan

Habitat: escaped in the case of Japan
Chromosome number: originally 2n = 64 (octoploid)
Use: ornamental and gardening → cultivars
Note: may be better to use Dahlia × hortensis Guill. for gardening cultivars
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Dahlia pinnata in Hokkaido


Single-flowered dahlias (cv. Twyning's After Eight)

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1-3] in a flower garden on Lake Hill Farm, Toya, central Hokkaido, on July 10 2019.

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