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(First upload on June 10 2021. Last on November 23 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]

Smilax china L.






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

Smilax L. (サルトリイバラ)
Sarutoriibara (サルトリイバラ, 猿捕茨), east Asian greenbrier
Lifeform: perennial semi-shrub
Distribution: eastern Asia, including Japan
Habitat: forests and forest edges
Fruit: red
Use: medicine (rhizomes used for diaphoresis. diuresis, thirsty, detoxification, antisyphilitic, etc.)
Synonyms (discarded):

- var. taiheiensis (Hayata) T. Koyama
- f. gigantifolia (Sasam.) T. Koyama

var. igaensis Masam. et T. Kurok. (コミノサルトリイバラ)
var. yanagitae Honda (トキワサルトリイバラ)
f. xanthocarpa Sugim. (キミノサルトリイバラ)
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Smilax china in Japan


ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5 ST6
[1-3] in the experimental station of medicinal plant studies, Hokkaido University, on May 20 2021. [4/5] near Kintaro Rock between Togendai and Ubako, Hakone, central Honshu, on August 21 2021. [6] at the middle of Mount Mihara, Izu-Oshima Island (伊豆大島), on June 7 2023.

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