It grows naturally in low mountains and hilly areas, reaches a height of 1 to 2 m, and is often seen in bright forests, and usually blooms from April to June. Many glandular hairs are found on the sepals, stems, leaves, and young branches of flowers, and the liquid droplets secreted from these glands are sticky, hence the name is given on this nature, mochi is sticky.
Pyrus pyrifolia is a species of pear tree native to East Asia. The tree’s edible fruit is known by many names, including: Asian pear, Japanese pear. Traditionally in East Asia the tree’s flowers are a popular symbol of early spring, and it is a common sight in gardens and the countryside.
It is classified as a ‘Purpurea; purple cherry’ in the Satozakura group that was on the Arakawa embankment, but the color of the petals changes from pale pink to white.
This variant of species was discovered in the mountains of Gotemba, near Mt.Fuji in April 1916 by Jiro Takazawa, a subordinate of Hanjiro Yamade, head of Gotemba Agricultural High School. Yamaide sent it to Dr. Tomitaro Makino, and the botanical name was given to respect to Yamaide, and the Japanese name was given by Makino from the shape of the flower. It is a pure white flower that has lost the red pigment in Mamezakura (C. incisa) .
It is considered a hybrid of holly osmanthus (Osmanthus heterophyllus) and tea olive (Osmanthus fragrans). Like fragrant olive and tea olive, fragrant flowers bloom in leaf axils in bundles. It blooms a little later than fragrant olive, and has a more freshy scent. It is often used for hedges, etc.
It’s a very common wild plant resenble to lily (although it is not a true lily), delicately scented, growing on the sand dunes oh the Mediterranean and Black sea. The flowers have a pleasing, exotic and very subtle lily scent, which only becomes apparent during still, windless summer nights that allow the delicate fragrance to become perceptible.
このページはイタリアの古い友人Mario Bertiさんからの写真をもとに作成しました。This page is arranged using picture sent by my old Italian friend Mr. Mario Berti.
This plant has light pink to white, fragrant flowers have orange to orange-yellow stripes lining the throat. They occur in large clusters near the branch tips. Flowers are soft and smooth.
It blooms form on the tips of its vining stems and pendulate down 5 cm or more in length. Soft yellow bracts and creamy white flowers form a pendulous infloresence that opens over many weeks.
