Aobayama New Campus Plan
Plants in Aobayama
Plants
●Kazaguruma (Kinpouge family)
This is a vine which grows chiefly in the woods, and the stem is made a tree in brown. The flowering season is May-June, and the flower opens upward and completely with white or light purple, and is about 7-12cm in the diameter in the size. This likes place where a lot of moistures exists, and grows chiefly in the marsh. This is an important mother kind when the gardening kind is created because the flower is beautiful. This is distributed over North Kyushu from Honshu.
●Takonoashi (Yukinoshita family)
This is a marsh perennial. This grows to mud marsh, marsh, rice field, and riverbank, etc. in which the water level changes a lot. The ground part of the stem stands upright, doesn't become offshoot and is about 30-80cm in height, and its surface is glabrous and light crimson. The flowering season is in August-October, and a lot of flowers queue up in the branch of inflorescence, and such a name is named like octopus's foot. This is distributed over Amami-Oshima from Honshu.
●Sakurasou (Sakurasou family)
This is a perennial that grows in the field of the foot of a mountain and the riverbank with a lot of moistures. The flowering season is in April-May, and the scape of 15-40cm is extended, and several-20 flowers are the scatter types in the point. The corolla is bright red purple and about 2-3cm in diameter. Making to gardening is done and 500-700 kinds are grown. This is distributed over Kyushu from Southern Hokkaido.
●Himeshaga (Ayame family)
This is a perennial that grows under little dry woods in the mountains. The flower is light purple, a little small, though this looks like Shaga. The flowering season is in May-June, and this withers in winter. Because the leaves are thinner than Shaga and it is feeling that the whole is tender, such a feminine name is given. This is distributed over Northern Kyushu from Southwestern Hokkaido.
●Yuushunran (Ran family)
This is a small perennial. The stem stands upright, and height becomes about 20-40cm. This is a variety into which the leaf of Ginran degenerates, and the stem and leaf is none or squama. Moreover, there is a feature such as seeing the space between petals, too. This is distributed over Kyushu from Hokkaido, but is slightly rare.
●Kakiran (Ran family)
This is a perennial that grows in the sunshiny marsh. The rhizome crawls sideways, and puts out the root from the node. The stem is about 30-70cm in height. 5 -10 leaves adhere, are oval, and the leaf is length 7cm-12cm, and width 2cm-4cm. The flowering season is in June-August, and about ten tan flowers are put up to the upper part of the stem. This is distributed over Kyushu from Hokkaido.
●Fumotosumire (Sumire family)
This is a little small violet that grows in hilly area and low mountains, and there is usually the piliferous surface of the leaf. The flowering season is in April-May, and flower is small and white, the length of its petal is 7mm-8mm. The petal of the lip type is shorter, narrower than other petals, and purple lines enter. This is distributed over Kyushu from Honshu area west of Miyagi.
-Reference book : Japanese Wild Plant (herbs 1, 2, and 3), Edited by Yoshisuke Satake and others, Heibonsha
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