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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Aristolochiaceae (ウマノスズクサ科) > Asarum heterotropoides
Asarum L. (カンアオイ)Okuezosaishin (オクエゾサイシン, 奥蝦夷細辛), Chinese wild ginger (for var. mandshuricum, syn. A. mandshuricum)Life form: perennial forb Distribution: northern Japan - Sakhalin (when var. mandshuricum is excluded) RDB Hokkaido: R Habitat: forest floors between lowland and subalpine zones |
Use: medicine, as expectorant, antitussive and spasmolysis (roots and rhizomes) Synonyms:
Asarum sieboldii Miq. ssp. heterotropoides (F. Schmidt) Kitam. |
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[1] at the western slope of Mount Yotei (羊蹄山), central Hokkaido, on June 28 2014.