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(First upload on June 6 2012. Last on October 13 2021) [ 日本語 | English ]

Cryptomeria japonica (Thunb. ex L. f.) D. Don






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

Cryptomeria D. Don (スギ)
Sugi (スギ, 杉), Japanese ceder: long shoot only (or hard to distinguish between short and long shoots)
Lifeform: evergreen needle-leaved tree
Distribution: Japan except Hokkaido (endemic to Japan) → the trees in Hokkaido are transplanted
Habitat: wet, nutrient-rich soil
var. radicans Nakai (アシウスギ)
var. sinensis Siebold (カワイスギ)
f. clathrata Sugim. (ミタマスギ)
f. caespitosa Makino (ムレスギ), many branches on the top, often indistinguishable leader stems, discarded
Cultivars:
Albospica (メジロスギ), Araucarioides (エンコウスギ), Elegans (ヤワラスギ), Lycopodioides (イカリスギ), Sekkan-sugi (セッカンスギ), Spiralis (ヨレスギ), Unciata (エイザンスギ)
⇒ Japanese ceder for using quiver of Japanese archery (矢立のスギ)
索引

Cryptomeria japonica in Japan


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[1] at a shrine. [2] giant trees. [1/2] at Saod Island, Niigata Prefecture, in November 1995. [3] a landscape created by clear-cutiing on September 10 1990. [4] close-up of a bark (樹皮) on a trail to go Mount Yatsu near Shizuoka Gokoku Shrine*, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 5 2013. (*: Shinto shrines designated as places of worship for those who died in the war)
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[5] along a street near Hachiman Shrine in the city of Sendai, northern Honshu, on March 23 2016. [6] on an area where wind powers was planned in Esashi, southern Hokkaido, on May 15 2019.


f. caespitosa (ムレスギ)

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[1-3] in Botanic Gardens, Tohoku University, Natural Monument Aobayama, northern Honshu, on March 23 2016. [Data] ムレスギ. Cryptomeria japonica f. caespitosa Taxodiaceae. Coll. Nasu Town, Tochigi Prefecture. Donat. Nasu Imperial Villa. Graft. October 11 1980.

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