Family | Adoxaceae |
Scientific name | Adoxa moschatellina L. |
Synonyms | Adoxa inodora (Falconer ex C. B. Clarke) Nepomnyashchaya; Adoxa moschatellina L. var. inodora Falconer ex C. B. Clarke; Moschatellina generalis E. H. L. Krause |
Common name | (Japanese common name) ren-puku-sou (レンプクソウ, 連福草 [meaning: weed connected with Adonis plant 'Fukujyu-sou (フクジュソウ, 福寿草)' (named by history of specimen collection of the plant which roots was connected with Adonis plants' roots when the first specimen was collected in Japan)]), gorin-bana (ゴリンバナ, 五輪花 [meaning: five flowers]) |
(English common name) moschatel, muskroot, townhall-clock | |
Distribution | (Japan) Hokkaido, Honshu, Kyushu |
(Other nations) Russia, Korea, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Europe, Canada, USA | |
Habitat | Wet mountane forest |
Chromosomal number | 2n=36 [European Adoxa moschatellina: 2n= 45, 54] |
Description | Plants 5-17cm tall. Flowers 5 pale green 4-6mm across, top collora divided into 4 with 8 stamens, seconrary collora divided into 5 with 10 stamens, flowering in March to May. Perennial plants. |
Reference | Adoxa moschatellina L. |
Adoxa moschatellina L. | |
Adoxa moschatellina L. | |
Methods of creating dwarf phenotypes in plants (US Patent 20020194646) |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |
April 2008 at Kyoto Botanical Garden |