(First upload on Januray 19 2014. Last on January 17 2023) [ 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) > Commelinaceae (ツユクサ科) > Pollia japonica
P. japonica Thunb. (ヤブミョウガ) |
P. hasskarlii R. S. Rao (ナンゴクヤブミョウガ) |
P. secundiflora (Blume) Bakh. f. (ザルゾコミョウガ), Ishigaki Island |
Yabumyouga (ヤブミョウガ, 薮茗荷), (Japanese) spiderwort Life form: rhizomatous, perennial forb with 50-90 cm in height Distribution: East Asia (China - Taiwan - Korea - Japan, south to Kanto District) Habitat: forest floors (mainly in evergreen broad-leaved forests) Friut: white → blue → black Chromosome number: 2n = 38 Edible: young shoot |
var. minor Walker (コヤブミョウガ), less than 40 cm tall and fewer flowers in Okinawa and Kagoshima Synonyms (-: Pollia):
- miranda (H. Lév.) H. Hara, recently adopted (separated from P. japonica) |
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[1-3] at a 6th trail near the Biwa Falls on Mount Takao (599 m elevation), Tokyo, on October 21 2013. Ref. Mount Takao forest for recreational use (高尾山自然休養林). [4/5] along an unpaved road in Kyoto Botanical Gardens, western Japan, on September 18 2022. [6] in Hama-rikyu Gardens, Tokyo, on November 13 2015.