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Erythronium japonicum Decne.

Species

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Characteristics

Plants 16--20 cm tall, ca. 1/3 length underground. Bulb 5--6 × ca. 1 cm, basally often with several bulbels. Petiole 3--4 cm; leaf blade elliptic to broadly lanceolate, 10--11 × 2.5--6.5 cm, glabrous, base cuneate, apex obtuse, acute, or mucronate. Flower solitary, long pedunculate. Tepals rose purple, adaxially with a blackish, 3-toothed mottle proximally, lanceolate, 3.5--5 cm × 7--11 mm; inner tepals with 4 small calli near base adaxially and 2 spreading, ovate-semiorbicular auricles laterally. Filaments filiform to subulate, less than 1 mm wide, unequal; anthers suboblong, 5--7 mm. Style slightly thickened distally, longer than stamens; stigma short, 3-lobed. Fl. Apr--May. 2 n = 24.
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A bulb plant. It grows 16-20 cm tall. It has about 1.3 of its length underground. The bulb is 5-6 cm long by 1 cm wide. There can often be several small bulbs near the base. The leaf stalk is 3-4 cm long. The leaf blade is oval and 10-11 cm long by 2.5-6.5 cm wide. The flowers occur singly. The have long stalks. They are rose purple.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
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Mature height (meter) 0.18 - 0.2
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
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Environment

Woods in lowland and low mountains of C. and N. Japan. Moist places in forests, S Jilin and Liaoning provinces in hina.
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It is a temperate plant. It grows in moist places in forests in N China.
Light 4-6
Soil humidity 4-6
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 3-7
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Hardiness (USDA) -

Usage

The bulbs are used for starch. This is used in dumplings, confectionary, fritters, to thicken soups and in other foods. The leaves are used fresh or dried.
Uses food medicinal
Edible bulbs leaves roots
Therapeutic use Aperient (unspecified), Excipient (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 30 - 365
Germination temperacture (C°) 10 - 15
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Images

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Distribution

Erythronium japonicum world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:534936-1
WFO ID wfo-0000766939
COL ID 3BFFR
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Erythronium japonicum f. immaculatum Erythronium japonicum Erythronium japonicum f. leucanthum Erythronium japonicum f. album Erythronium japonicum var. leucanthum Erythronium japonicum f. immaculatum Erythronium japonicum
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