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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Aconitum L. (トリカブト)Aconitum japonicum Thunb.Chromosome number: 2n = 32ssp. 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.) 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 Field training on integrated environmental research (統合環境調査法実習) (fauna and flora (種リスト) 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 |
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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[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.