(First upload on July 16 2007. Last on August 12 2012) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Asteraceae (キク科) > Matricaria matricarioides
Matricaria L. (シカギク)Orosyagiku (オロシャギク, 露西亜菊) / Koshikagiku (コシカギク, 小鹿菊), pineapple weed (rayless chamomile)Meaning: 'Orosya' and 'Koshika' mean 'Russia'. 'Giku (kiku)' means 'Chrysanthemum'. Lifeform: annual forb < 30 cm high Distribution: north America and northeast Asia (exotic to Japan) |
Hatibat: ruderal as a weed (雑草) Flavor: like a melon, water melon, or pineapple (I want to say the smell is like a pineapple) Along roads in the campus of Hokkaido University, we can see a lot of pineapple weed. You may see this species in a field trip of my lecture, HUSTEP (Plants and Plant communities in Japan, flora list). |
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[1] on a roadside in the campus of Hokkaido University, Sapporo, on June 14 2007. [2-4] at a small arable land, N24/E1, East Ward, Sapporo, on July 18 2012. [5] on an unpaved parking lot, N17/E1, East Ward, Sapporo, on May 31 2019.