Angelica acutiloba (Siebold & Zucc.) Kitag.

Species

Angiosperms > Apiales > Apiaceae > Angelica

Characteristics

Plants perennial, 30–100 cm. Root yellow-brown, 10–25 × 1–2.5 cm, strongly aromatic. Stem solid, purplish, thinly ribbed. Basal and lower leaves petiolate, petioles 10–30 cm, sheaths oblong; blade triangular-ovate, 10–25 cm, 1–2-ternate-pinnate, glabrous; pinnae short-petiolulate, 2–9 × 1–3 cm, 3-lobed, segments lanceolate, margin irregularly acute-serrate, apex acuminate to acute; peduncles 5–20 cm, glabrous or pubescent; bracts absent or 1 to several, linear-lanceolate, 1–2 cm; rays 18–30, unequal, pubescent; bracteoles 5–8, linear, 5–15 mm; umbellules ca. 30-flowered; pedicels slender. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white, obovate to oblong. Fruit narrow-oblong, 4–5 × 1–1.5 mm; dorsal ribs filiform, lateral ribs narrow-winged; vittae 3–4 in each furrow, 4–8 on commissure. Fl. Jul–Aug, fr. Aug–Sep.
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A herb. It keeps growing from year to year. It can grow 70 cm high. The stems are reddish to purple. They have thin ribs. The leaves are deep green and arranged alternately. The upper leaves are oblong and with teeth. Lower leaves have lobes. These can be 2-9 cm long by 1-3 cm wide.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) -
Mature height (meter) 0.7 - 0.85
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

A temperate plant. It grows in the mountains in central Japan. It suits hardiness zone 7. It suits moist soils. It can grow in light shade.
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In the mountains of central. Japan.
Light 4-9
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 1-5
Soil acidity 3-7
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 6-8

Usage

Caution: It contains furocoumarins that can make skin sensitive to sunlight and cause dermatitis.
Uses medicinal
Edible leaves
Therapeutic use Aperient (unspecified), Debility (unspecified), Hematinic (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified), Anodyne (unspecified), Gynecopathy (unspecified), Cancer(Cervix) (unspecified), Tumor (unspecified), Tumor(Thyroid) (unspecified), Vertigo (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -18
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
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Productivity -

Images

Angelica acutiloba unspecified picture

Distribution

Angelica acutiloba world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:837548-1
WFO ID wfo-0000536076
COL ID DYR9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Apium ternatum Ligusticum acutilobum Sium triternatum Angelica acutiloba Angelica acutiloba var. sugiyamae Angelica acutiloba var. tsukubana

Lower taxons

Angelica acutiloba var. iwatensis Angelica acutiloba var. lineariloba