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(First upload on October 19 2011. Last on December 21 2019) [ 日本語 | English ]

Prunus nipponica Matsum.






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

Subfamily Amygdaloideae Arn.
Prunus L. (サクラ)
P. nipponica Matsum. (タカネザクラ, s.l.)
Seed dispersal (種子散布): animal
var. alpina (Koidz.) Sugim. (クモイザクラ)
var. kurilensis (Miyabe) E. H. Wilson (チシマザクラ, 千島桜), Japanese alpine cherry *)
Lifeform: deciduous tree ≈ 5 m high
Distribution: central Japan - southern Kuril
Habitat: (subalpine) forests

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

Hair: spreading on the petiole, pedicel and hypanthium
Synonyms:

Cerasus nipponica (Matsum.) Ohle ex H. Ohba var. kurilensis (Miyabe) H. Ohba
Cerasus kurilensis (Miyabe) Czerep.
Prunus kurilensis (Miyabe) Miyabe ex Takeda

*: A guide board at a garden of the former Hokkaido Government Office indicated that the flower is a symbol of the campaign for returning the Northern Territories to Japan on May 22 2014. The wild fruit is tiny as compared with cultivars.
var. nipponica (タカネザクラ, s.s. /ミネザクラ)
Lifeform: shrub or short tree with 2-10 m in height
Hair: none or less on the petiole, pedicel and hypanthium
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Prunus nipponica in Japan


var. nipponica (タカネザクラ)

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[1-3] along a walkboard in Shinsen Bog, Niseko, western Hokkaido, on June 18 2025.

var. kurilensis (チシマザクラ)

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ST4 ST5 ST6
[1/2] along a forest road close to the guest house of Teshio Experimental Forest, Hokkaido University, northern Hokkaido, on June 16 2011. [3] on the middle slope of Mount Mashu, eastern Hokkaido, on June 26 2019. [4] at a trail to go Mount Tomamu on July 20 2012. [5] at a western slope of Mount Yotei (羊蹄山), central Hokkaido, on June 28 2014. [6] along a forest road in the Shibecha Experimental Forest of Kyoto University, eastern Hokkaido, on June 27 2019.

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