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(First upload on September 5 2009. Last on February 12 2020) [ 日本語 | English ]

Phytolacca americana L.






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

Phytolacca L. (ヤマゴボウ) in Japan


Perennial plants, comprising of ca. 25 spp.
P. japonica Makino (マルミノヤマゴボウ), south to Kanto District
P. dioica L. (メキシコヤマゴボウ, ombu)
P. esculenta Van Houtte (ヤマゴボウ, Asian pokeweed)
P. americana L. (ヨウシュヤマゴボウ)

Phytolacca americana in Japan


Youshuyamagobou (ヨウシュヤマゴボウ, 洋種山牛蒡), American pokeweed
Lifeform: large perennial forb
Origin: north America → exotic to Japan
Habitat: disturbed sitse, such as roadside, in the case of Hokkaido

Field training on integrated environmental research (統合環境調査法実習) (fauna and flora 種リスト)

HUSTEP: Plants and Plant communities in Japan (flora list)
Nature in the eco-campus of HU - introduction to botany (北大エコキャンパスの自然 - 植物学入門)

Seed dispersal: animal (mainly berry-feeding bird)
Poisonous weed: containing phytolaccatoxins (alkaloids), phytolaccasaponins (saponins), phytolaccigenins (aglycones), etc.
索引

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
[1/2] at N30/E4, East Ward, Sapporo, on August 30 2009. [3] at Yushima Temple (seido), Tokyo, on May 30 2014. This species was dominant on the slope. [4/5] in a court used for a smoking area in GSEES, HU, on November 2 2019.

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