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(First upload on June 10 2009. Last on May 10 2013) [ 日本語 | English ]

Aconitum japonicum Thunb.






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

Aconitum L. (トリカブト)
Aconitum japonicum Thunb.
Chromosome number: 2n = 32
ssp. ibukiense (Nakai) Kadota (イブキトリカブト) (syn. var. ibukiense (Nakai) Tamura)
ssp. japonicum (ヤマトリカブト)
ssp. maritimum (Tamura et Namba) Kadota (ツクバトリカブト)

var. maritimum (Tamura et Namba) Kadota (ツクバトリカブト, s.s.)
var. iyariense Kadota (イヤリトリカブト)

ssp. napiforme (H. Lev. et Vaniot) Kadota (タンナトリカブト), East Asian monk shood
ssp. subcuneatum (Nakai) Kadota
Okutorikabuto (オクトリカブト, 奥鳥兜)
Lifeform: perennial forb
Distribution: China- Japan (Flora on Mount Usu)
Habitat: forests

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Use: tuberous root used as medicine (cardiant, analgesic, stimulant)
⇔ poison (Aynu, Hokkaido native, used the poison to hunt bear)
Synonyms:

Aconitum japonicum Thunb. var. kitakamiense Saiki et Hosoi
Aconitum japonicum auct. non Thunb.
Aconitum subcuneatum Nakai
Aconitum zuccarinii Nakai

var. eizanense (Nakai) Tamura (キタヤマブシ)
var. hakonense (Nakai) Tamura (ハコネトリカブト)
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Aconitum japonicum in Hokkaido


ssp. subcuneatum

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
[1/2] flowers on August 31 2012. [3] no flowers at the Keiteki-no-mori Forest (恵迪の森) on May 21 2009. Do not eat! [4/5] on the south slope of Mount Usu in August 2001. Records: In Experimental Station for Medical Plant Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, on April 23 2021.

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