The plant is best known for the edible flower buds (capers), used as a seasoning, and the fruit (caper berries), both of which are usually consumed pickled. The flowers are complete, sweetly fragrant, and showy, with four sepals and four white to pinkish-white petals, and many long violet-colored stamens, and a single stigma
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Begonia pendula, the pendulous begonia, in particular, is highly appreciated precisely because it is highly decorative: it is a plant whose branches fall gently downwards and for this reason it is frequently cultivated in suspended pots, at home or in open spaces, to create a colorful and fragrant setting to the rooms.
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Flourishes of purple to pink (seldom white) in March-May before putting leaves, intensity perfumed The fruit is a bright red berry 7–12 mm diameter; it is very poisonous for humans Flourishes in March-May before putting leaves. Intensily perfumed. The name comes from the Greek mythology (legend of Apollo and Daphne)
Rosa roxburghii var. hirtula, R. roxburghii hirtula
和名
サンショウバラ
Common name
Sansyou bara
漢字名
山椒薔薇
別名
ハコネバラ（箱根薔薇）
Alternate name
分類
01 原種/ 原種交雑種
Group
01 Wild/ species rose
系統
01 原種
Type
01 Wild
生育型
04 シュラブ/半つる性
Growth type
04 shrub/half climber
樹姿
03 中間
Growth habit
03 intermediate
花の大きさ
02 中
flower size
02 medium
花型
01 一重
flower type
01 single
咲く時期
01 一季
Flowering season
01 once blooming
花の主な色
09 桃
Flower main color
09 pink
花の二次色
Flower secondary color
二次色の分布
Distribution of secondary color
裏側の主な色
Main color on the outerside
コメント
富士箱根地区に分布する日本固有種で葉が小さく山椒ににることからこの名前があります。
Comments
Wild species rose native in Fuji-Hakone area Japan, and small laeflet looks like Sansyo, Japanese pepper (Zanthoxylum piperitum) which is reason of Japanese name.
