(Upload on April 23 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) > Liliaceae (ユリ科) > Rohdea japonica
Omoto (オモト, 万年青), Nippon lily or sacred lily
Lifeform: evergreen perennial herb
Distribution: China - Japan (south to Honshu)
Habitat: mountains
Use: gardening used after Edo Era → many cultivars
var. latifolia Hatus. (サツマオモト)
1
2
[1-3] in Botanic Gardens, Tohoku University, Natural Monument Aobayama, northern Honshu, on March 23 2016.