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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) > Coriariaceae (ドクウツギ科) > Coriaria japonica
Consisting of about 30 species in one genus, Coriaria
Maori in NZ calls this genus tutu (that is used for this directory name)
≈ 10 species in the world
Distribution: paleoequatorial Only C. japonica is native to Japan. |
C. intermedia Matsum. (タイワンドクウツギ) C. japonica A. Gray (ドクウツギ) |
C. myrtifolia L. (セイヨウドクウツギ) C. napalensis Wall. (ヒマラヤドクウツギ) |
Dokuutsugi (ドクウツギ, 毒空木), Japanese coriaria* (*: tentative) Ichirobeegoroshi (イチロベエゴロシ) Lifeform: decidusou shrub Distribution: Japan (Hokkaido - north to Kinki District of Honshu) - China, endemic to Japan if the report from China is incorrect |
Habitat: open lands Flowering: May Fruit: red → deep purple (containing poisonous chemicals, of which name is coriamyrtin) Chromosome number: 2n = 24 |
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[1/2] at a location planned for Tomamae Wind Power on September 21 2017. [3/4] a specimen collected on a Japaese black pine forest in the Ikarashi Campus of Niigata University on August 2 1989.