(First upload on April 3 2012. Last on May 11 2017) [ 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) > Ericaceae (ツツジ科) > Pieris japonica
Pieris D. Don (アセビ)One species native to Japan ⇒Pieris japonica (Thunb.) D. Don ex G. Don Asebi (アセビ, 馬酔木, s.l.), lily-of-the-valley bush Lifeform: evergreen shrub Distribution: the northern limit of distribution is Fukushima Prefecture, Honshu (endemic to Japan) Habitat: (evergreen) broad-leaved forests Poisonous plant → asebotoxin (grqyanotoxin) Synonyms: Andromeda japonica Thunb. |
ssp. japonica (アセビ, s.s.) ssp. koidzumiana (Ohwi) Hatus. (リュウキュウアセビ) ssp. taiwanensis (Hayata) Hatus. (タイワンアセビ) var. yakushimensis T. Yamaz. (ヤクシマアセビ) f. elegantissima (Carrière) Nakai (フイリアセビ) f. monostachya (Nakai) H. Hara (ホナガアセビ) Cultivars:
cv. Christmas cheer, cv. Daisen & cv. flamingo |
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[1] in the campus of Ryukoku University (Ryukoku Forest), Otsu City, eastern Japan, on March 17 2012. [2] on Mount Misen (弥山, 535 m elevation), Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 16 2014. [3] in Nagasaki Park (formerly Suwa Park), northwestern Kyushu, on April 16 2017. [4] near the entrance of Seyama trail in Kobe, western Japan, on March 16 2019. Discarded: in West Ikebukuro Park, Tokyo, on March 14 2017.
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[1] cv. Christmas cheer: near a cropfield close to an entrance of a trail on Mount Yatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, on March 5 2013. [2/3] near Itsukushima Shrine, Hiroshima Prefecture, on March 16 2014. The shrine and its surrounding area are registered on the World Heritage List (世界遺産) → Tsuga sieboldii forest.