(First upload on January 11 2010. Last on October 16 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Polygonum L. (タデ)Itadori (イタドリ, 痛取/虎杖), Japanese knotweedLifeform: large perennial forb Distribution: China - Taiwan - Korea - Japan (incluidng southwestern Hokkaido) [now one of '100 of the world's worst invasive alien species'] (IUCN) Habitat: disturbed sites, such as volcanoes Seed dispersal: wind Morphology compared to P. sachalinense (オオイタドリ) and P. weyrichii (ウラジロタデ) Synonyms
Fallopia japonica (Houtt.) Ronse Decr.: standard |
Reynoutria japonica Houtt. var. compactum (Hook. f.) L. H. Bailey (オノエイタドリ) var. hachidyoense (Makino) Ohwi (ハチジョウイタドリ) Distribution: Izu Islands Leaf: thick and glossy |
f. colorans (Makino) Makino (メイゲツソウ/ベニイタドリ) |
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[1/2] a patch enclosed by Polygonum sachalinense and Artemisia montana in the crater basin of Mount Usu (有珠山) on July 15 2008. [3] in the campus of Kagoshima University, southern Kyushu, on March 18 2015. [4] on Murmur (Seseragi) Forest in Oi Pier, Tokyo, on June 3 2016. [5] at a bank along Sophia Street, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, on November 14 2014. [6] along a paved road near a harbor in Saint John, New Brunswick, eastern Canada, on September 19 2014. [7] in the South Park of Kobe Port Island, western Japan, on March 15 2019. [8] on the southern crater basin of Mount Usu on September 19 2020.
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[1-3] between the middle and top of Mount Mihara, Izu-Oshima Island (伊豆大島), on June 7 2023.
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[1-3] on the southern crater basin of Mount Usu on September 19 2020.
Fuiri-itadori (フイリイタドリ, 斑入痛取), Cultivars
Syn: Reynoutria japonica Houtt. f. spectabilis Houtt.
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[1-3] in Experimental Station for Medical Plant Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, on October 15 2011.