(First upload on June 27 2017. Last on February 4 2019) [ 日本語 | English ]
Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
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Boehmeria Jacq. (カラムシ)B. nivea (L.) Gaudich.Lifeform: perennial forb < 1.5 m high Leaf: alternate ⇔ B. japonica: opposite var. concolor Makino (アオカラムシ)
f. nipononivea (Koidz.) Kitam. ex H. Ohba |
Use: formerly producing fibers for clothes etc. (cultivation recorded 6,000 years b.p.)
- ssp. nipononivea (Koidz.) Kitam. Synonyms: Boehmeria nivea (L.) Gaudich. var. tenacissima auct. non (Roxb.) Miq. |
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var. concolor f. nipononivea
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[1-3] in front of JR Nagasaki Station, western Kyushu, April 16 2017.
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[4-6] on October 19 2018. [4/5] in the Tokyo Garden Terrace Kioicho (biotope, corridor). [6] in the inner moat of Edo Castle, Tokyo.