(First upload on March 1 2014. Last on March 29 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) > Lauraceae (クスノキ科) > Neolitsea sericea
Neolitsea (Benth. et Hook. f.) Merr. (シロダモ)Shirodamo (シロダモ, 白ダモ), シロタブ, Japanese silver treeLifeform: evergreen, short tree < 15 m in height Distribution: China (Zhejiang) - Taiwan - Korea - Japan (south to Yamagata and Miyagi) Habitat: forests (森林) |
Mount Takao forest for recreational use (高尾山自然休養林) Fruit: red → seed dispersal: animialUse: transplanted for developing windbreak forests Syonnyms: Neolitsea cuneifolia (Koidz.) Koidz. |
var. argentea Hatus. (ダイトウシロダモ): in Daito Islands var. aurata (Hayata) Hatus. (キンショクダモ): in Kyushu, Bonin Isl., Nansei Isl. and Taiwan f. xanthocarpa (Makino) Okuyama (キミノシロダモ): yellow fruits |
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[1/2] flower buds on the summit of Mount Takao (599 m elevation), Tokyo, on October 21 2013. The tree was well-established in the campus of Niigata University (新潟大学) when I was abused.
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[3] in Oi Pier Seaside Park, Tokyo, on December 26 2015. [4/5] on Fukuura-jima Island in Matsushima Islands, northern Honshu, on March 21 2016.