(First upload on June 4 2014. Last on April 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) > Aquifoliaceae (モチノキ科) > Ilex integra
Ilex L. (モチノキ)Mochinoki (モチノキ, 黐木), mochi tree, 10-20 m high when maturedHonmochi (ホンモチ, 本黐) Life form: evergreen, short tree Distribution: central/southern China - Taiwan - Japan (south th Tohoku District) |
Habitat: evergreen forests Fruit: red → Seed dispersal (種子散布): animal → Seed: deeply dormant Use: gardening, birdlime (torimochi) from the bark var. brachypoda (S. Y. Hu) Hatus. ex Shimabuku (エナシモチノキ) f. ellipsoidea (Y. Okamoto) Ohwi (イヌモチ) f. lutea H. Ohba et S. Akiyama (キミノモチ) |
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[1/2] at Yushima Temple (seido), Tokyo, on May 30 2014. [3/4] in the salicetums of Botanic Gardens, Tohoku University, Natural Monument Aobayama, northern Honshu, on March 22 2016. [Data] Origin: Katahirachou (片平丁) in th city of Sendai, Donator: Botany Lab., Transplant: April 1969 ⇒ bark (樹皮)