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Some interesting plants of Japan

Rohdea japonica [Asperagaceae] - Japanese Sacred lily, this plant is considered good luck both in Japan and China, its broad long leaves symbolise long life and immortality. Flowers are strangely shaped.

Actinidia polygama[Actinidiaceae] - Silver vine, the leaves turn silvery-white

Lechanorchis japonica [Orchidaceae] - a rare and beautiful orchid

Lecanorchis is a genus of orchids that are usually found on the mountain forest floors across Southeast Asia, including India.

If you had thought that there is a flower behind every fruit, you may have to think again.

Japanese scientists have found an orchid that turns into a fruit without blooming. They recorded the flower, Lecanorchis nigricans var. Nigricans in Kami City of Kochi Prefecture, which remains a bud and slowly turns into a fruit. This behaviour is called cleistogamy, where the flower self pollinates. Cleistogamy has been reported in some members of the grass family also.

Cinnamomum camphora [Lauraceae] - Camphor tree 
Found in India also

Beautiful bark of Litsea lancifolia [Lauraceae] - this tree is also found in Darjeling and north-eastern parts of India

Red peeling bark of Prunus zippeliana[Rosaceae]

Odontochilus hatusimanus[Orchidaceae]  - Rare plant of Japan called Jewel Orchid 

Sugi tree:  Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica v. japonica
Jōmon Sugi (縄文杉) is a large Cryptomeria tree (yakusugi) located on Yakushima, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Japan

Cymbidium goeringii [Orchidaceae]

Wisteria brachibortriys

Cremastra appendiculata

Arisaema serratum

Calanthe sieboldii

Calanthe takane

Cremastra appendiculata

Actias artmis - Japanese luna moth

Goodyera schlectendaliana
Goodyera velutina
Liparis krameri

Plantenthera minor

Akebia quinata

Tricyrtis affinis - Toad Lily
Asarum asariodes - Wild Ginger


Phyllonstachys pubescenes -- Moso bamboo

Calanthe reflexa

Galeola septentrinalis

Abis firma


 

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