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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
⇒ Engler's syllabus (エングラー体系)
Consisting of about 30 species in one genus, Coriaria
Maori in NZ calls this genus tutu (that is used for this directory name)
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.