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(First upload on December 26 2009. Last on May 19 2017) [ 日本語 | English ]

Litsea coreana H. Leveill






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

Litsea Lam. (ハマビワ)
Kagonoki (カゴノキ, 鹿子之木), sword-leaf litsea
The Japanese common name is originated from collated spots or dapple patterns, that is called 'Kago (鹿子模様)' in Japanese, on the well-developed bark.
Lifeform: evergreen tree < 15 m high
Distribution: China - Korea - Japan (south to Kanto District, central Honshu)
Habitat: forests (森林)
Flower: dioecious plant (female flowers attached with vestigial stamens)
Syonnyms:

Actinodaphne lancifolia (Sieb. et Zucc.) Meisn.
Litsea lancifolia auct. non (Roxb. ex Nees) Benth. et Hook.f. ex Fern.-Vill.

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Litsea coreana in Japan


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[1-3] at Rakuju-en Garden, Mishima, on November 18 2009. [4] in the Koishikawa Botanical Garden (小石川植物園), the University of Tokyo, on March 16 2017 ⇒ bark (dapple pattern)

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