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Taxus cuspidata Sieb. et Zucc.






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

[New Engler's syllabus (新エングラー体系)]

Taxaceae S. F. Gray, yew


Class Coniferopsida 球果植物綱(針葉樹綱), or Taxopsida
Dioecious

microsporophyll → shield-shaped with 6-8 microsporangia

Fifteen species in five (to seven) genera, mainly distributed in the Northern Hemisphere
Taxus L. (イチイ)
Arillus (pl. aril) (仮種皮) → red and juicy flesh like a pot
Eight or nine species (or one species with eight or nine varieties
T. baccata, European yew
T. brevifolia, Pacific yew, western yew
T. canadensis, Canadian yew
T. chinensis, Chinese yew
T. cuspidata, Japanese yew
T. floridana, Florida yew
T. globosa, Mexican yew
T. sumatrana, Sumatran yew
T. wallichiana, Himalayan yew
Taxus
Fig. A phylogeny tree.

Taxus cuspidata in Hokkaido


Ichii (イチイ, 一位/水松), Japanese yew
also we call Onko (オンコ) in Hokkaido
Araragi (アララギ)
Lifeform: dioecious, evergreen shrub/tree (giant tree)
Distribution: Japan - Korea - northeast China - southeast Russia
Habitat: mainly in mountainous regions

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

Seed dispersal: endo-zoochore (animal)
var. nana Hort. ex Rehder
Kyaraboku (キャラボク, 伽羅木)
Distribution: the Japan Sea side of Honshu
Stem: dwarf form branching at the base, adapted to snowy regions
Leaf: spiral arrangement

cv. Aurescens (オウゴンキャラ)

Use: medicine (diuresis and diabetes - branch and leaf)
f. luteobaccata (Miyabe et Tatew.) Hayashi (キミノオンコ)
索引

ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
[1/2] in a Hokko Green Space, East Ward, Sapporo. [1] on April 26 2024. [2] on September 1 2018. [3] in the Arboretum of Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido University, close to the Poplar Street on September 27 2016. [4] in front of the Faculty of Engineer, Hokkaido University. [5] a giant tree in northern Hokkaido (高橋峠のイチイ) on June 25 2018. Records: in Hokkaido University Campus (N11/W5) on October 19 2008.

var. nana (キャラボク)

ST1 ST2 ST3
[1] in the arboretum (樹木園) of Kyushu University Experimental Forest in Ashoro Town, eastern Hokkaido, on June 5 2014. [2/3] in Botanic Gardens, Tohoku University, Natural Monument Aobayama, northern Honshu, on March 23 2016. Record: in the backyard of Arctic Research Center, Hokkaido University, on June 4 2018. In Experimental Station for Medical Plant Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University, on April 23 2021

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