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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)Aucuba Thunb. (アオキ)One native species in JapanThe scientific genus name originating from aokiba (青木葉) Cornus L. (ミズキ)Davidia Baill. (ハンカチノキ) |
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Trees except a few species are herbaceous - all are trees in the other genera in Cornaceae
Flower: actinomorphic with 4-5 petals Infrorescence: conical or racemed JapanCornus L. (s.l.): four subgeneraCornus L. (s.s.): cyme, white - yellow flower with a small involucre, no species in Japan Swida Opiz, cyme, without an involucre C. controversa (Hemsl.) Soj. (ミズキ) C. macrophylla (Wall.) Soj. (クマノミズキ): not in Hokkaido Chamaepericlymenum Hill, capitulum, shrub or perennial herb C. canadense Asch. et Graebn. (ゴゼンタチバナ) C. suecicum (L.) Asch. et Graebn. (エゾゴゼンタチバナ) |
Benthamidia Spach, capitulum C. kousa (Siebold et Zucc.) H. Hara (ヤマボウシ): non-native to Hokkaido Non-native to JapanC. alba L. (シラタマミズキ)C. bretschneideri L. Henry (トウミズキ) C. florida L. (アメリカヤマボウシ) C. mas L. (セイヨウサンシュユ), the Mediterranean C. officinalis Siebold et Zucc. (サンシュユ) AlaskaC. sericea L. (Redosier dogwood, no Japanese name) |