Combined spicebush

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Lindera aggregata (Sims) Kosterm.

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

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Lindera Thunb. (クロモジ)

Tendai-uyaku (テンダイウヤク, 天台烏薬), combined spicebush
Lifeform: evergreen shrub with ≈ 3 m in height
Origin: central-southern China and Taiwan

introduced to Japan in Kyoho Era (享保年間, a part of Edo Era)
naturalized in the southern parts of Japan (west to Shizuoka Prefecture)

Habitat: sunny mountain slopes, valleys, sparse forests and thickets

Use: roots (aromatic stomachic and analgesic effect) and leaves (rheumatoid arthritis and bruise pain), used as medicine containing linderene, (-)-borneal, etc. Syonnyms:

Lindera strychnifolia (Siebold et Zucc. ex Blume) Fern.-Villon, sometimes used
Lindera aggregata (Sims) Kosterm. f. playfairii (Hemsl.) J. C. Liao, discarded

Lindera aggregata in Japan

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[1-3] aound the office building for Wakayama Experimental Forest of Hokkaido University, western Japan, on June 25 2024.