Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Pyrola japonica Klenze ex Alef. |
Bibliography | Linnaea 28: 57 (1856) |
Native Range | s. Russian Far East to n. & ec. China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Altitude | 0-2000m |
Description | leaves elliptic, 4-7cm long, dark green, with pale veins and small, remote teeth, scape with lanceolate bracts, flowers 12-15mm across, openly campanulate |
Size | 15-30cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or as soon as possible division in early spring; cuttings in early and late summer |
Synonyms | Pyrola asarifolia var. japonica (Alef.) Miq. Pyrola coreana Andres Pyrola incarnata var. japonica (Alef.) Koidz. Pyrola rotundifolia var. albiflora Maxim. Pyrola rotundifolia var. japonica (Alef.) Andres |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KHA Khabarovsk, KUR Kuril Is., PRM Primorye) 36 China (CHI Inner Mongolia, CHM Manchuria, CHN China North-Central, CHS China Southeast) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan, KOR Korea, TAI Taiwan) |