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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Fabaceae (Leguminosae) (マメ科) > Canavalia lineata
Canavalia DC. (ナタマメ)Hamanatamame (ハマナタマメ, 浜鉈豆), beach bean or bay beanLifeform: perennial vine Distribution: East Asia - China - Taiwan - Japan (Honshu, south to Chiba Prefecture at Pacific Ocean side and south to Yamagata Prefecture at Japan Sea side) Habitat: sand dune along seacoasts Flower: pink - red |
Seed: water dispersal, often utilizing ocean current
containing concanavalin (protein) that is poison f. albiflora Y. Kimura (シロバナハマナタマメ) |
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[1-5] at Kushima Island in Nanki-Kumano GeoPark, western Japan, on June 25 2024. A larva of stink bug, Nezara antennata on the flower.