(First upload on October 8 2015. Last on May 28 2016) [ 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) > Lardizabalaceae (アケビ科) > Akebia trifoliata
Fruit: berry Consisting of about 35 species in seven or nine genera Akebia Dence. (アケビ) Archakebia C. Y. Wu, T. C. Chen et H. N. Qin, when separated from Holboellia |
Boquila Dence. Decaisnea Hook. f. et Thomson Holboellia Wall. Lardizabala Ruiz et Pav. |
Sargentodoxa Rehder et E. H. Wilson, treated as Sargentodoxaceae (サルゲントドクサ) by Engler (distributed in China and southeastern Asia) Sinofranchetia (Diels) Hemsl. Stauntonia DC. (ムベ) |
Akebia Decne. (アケビ)A. longeracemosa Matsum. (ホザキアケビ) |
A. quinata (Houtt.) Decne. (アケビ) A. trifoliata (Thunb.) Koidz. (ミツバアケビ) |
A. × pentaphylla (Makino) Makino (ゴヨウアケビ) |
Mitsubaakebi (ミツバアケビ, 三葉木通/三葉通草), three-leaf akebia Lifeform: deciduous (to semi-evergreen), climbing woody plant Distribution: China - Japan (Kyushu - Hokkaido) Habitat: arable land, e.g., areas after clear-cutting |
Leaf: three leaflets (= mitsuba) Fruit: edible (sweety) → the seeds dispersed by animals Chromosome number: 2n = 32 Synonyms: Akebia trifoliata (Thunb.) Koidz. var. litoralis Konta et Katsuy. ssp. australis (Diels) T. Shimizu (ナンゴクミツバアケビ) |
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[1-3] in a small field, probably home garden, in front of Muroran Marine Experimental Station faced to the Funka Bay on September 14 2015. [4] on Fukuura-jima Island in Matsushima Islands, northern Honshu, on March 21 2016.