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Aquilegia flabellata Siebold & Zucc.

Fan columbine (en)

Species

Angiosperms > Ranunculales > Ranunculaceae > Aquilegia

Characteristics

A herb which keeps growing from year to year. It is a small compact plant. It grows 20-45 cm high and spreads 15-30 cm wide. The flowers are a soft, blue-purple colour. There are 1-2 per stem. They have white or cream petal tips and in-curved spurs.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support -
Foliage retention deciduous
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 0.13 - 0.2
Mature height (meter) 0.1 - 0.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
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Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway -

Environment

Scrub in the alpine regions of central and northern Japan.
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A temperate plant. It suits hardiness zones 3-9.
Light 4-7
Soil humidity 3-7
Soil texture 4-6
Soil acidity 2-8
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 4-9

Usage

The red petals can be used as a natural food colouring. Caution: The seeds and roots are poisonous. They have a heart toxin.
Uses environmental use medicinal poison
Edible flowers leaves
Therapeutic use Emmenagogue (unspecified)
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by divisions or seedlings.
Mode divisions seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 5
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment -
Minimum temperature (C°) -40
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Aquilegia flabellata unspecified picture

Distribution

Aquilegia flabellata world distribution map, present in China, Japan, Liberia, and Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:708885-1
WFO ID wfo-0000541311
COL ID FZR9
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Aquilegia japonica f. globularis Aquilegia fauriei Aquilegia fauriei Aquilegia spectabilis Aquilegia flabellata Aquilegia amurensis Aquilegia akitensis Aquilegia akitensis var. globularis Aquilegia buergeriana var. pumila Aquilegia flabellata var. alpina Aquilegia flabellata var. humiliata Aquilegia flabellata var. protypica Aquilegia flabellata var. pumila Aquilegia sibirica var. flabellata Aquilegia sibirica var. japonica Aquilegia sibirica var. spectabilis Aquilegia glandulosa Aquilegia flabellata f. pumila
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