The Violet Chamber (Flower Photo Gallery) Latest Update 2012/02/05
| Distribution | Japanese |
| Viola rossii | Japanese Name : Akebobo Sumire | |
| Viola rossii f. atro-purpurea | Viola rossii f. lactiflora | |
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| Yamanasi / May 3, 2005 alt.=1,180m | |
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| Yamanasi / April 30, 20 alt.=1,000m | |
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| Nagano / May 28, 2004 alt.=1,665m | |
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| Kanagawa / May 1, 2010 | |
| Yamanashi / April 26, 2003 | |
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| Yamanashi / May 3, 2005 | Shizuoka / May 5, 2005 |
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| Gunma / May 2, 1999 | Tokyo / April 15, 2001 |
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Few kind of 'wild violet' blooms on a bright hill here. A large-patterned flower is the greatest feature at a glance. The flower color, too, is different from the general violet, being fair. |
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| Nagano / May 3, 1999 | |
| Section | Vaginatae W. Becker | |||||||||
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| Stalk Form | The individual leaves and flowering stalks emerge directly from the rootstock. | |||||||||
| Habitat | In the bottom of the woods, they are many on the slope where the fallen leaf piled up (As the photograph). | |||||||||
| Distribution | It is distributed over the inland area from the Hokkaido southern part to Kyushu central part. Comparatively, it is little in the western Japan. | |||||||||
| Characteristic of a flower |
The large wheel of the soft image flower which is pink roughly in the circularity of the whole flower is characteristic. | |||||||||
| Characteristic of a leaf |
In the pointed heart form of the end, it spreads out roughly barely after the flower. There is a minute hair. | |||||||||
| Chromosomes Number | 2n=24 | |||||||||
| Others | Viola vaginata grows in with the side of Japan Sea, Viola rossii grows in with the inland area, Viola bisseti grows in with Pacific Ocean side. |
The thick stem stretches from among of the withered leaf and has the large flower of the sinking pink. Viola vaginata has the characteristic of the common leaf.
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| It is distributed mainly in 'Saitama', 'Nagano' and 'Gunma'. In 'Gunma', for the first time, when finding, being very glad, it admired with which has the violet of such a large image. The image is quite different from Viola bissetii in Mt. Takao. Regrettably, the color was different from the flower to have been seeing 'Gunma' and 'Nagano' with the illustrated guide. |
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| Iwate / May 14, 2011 |
| (1999/10/22) Latest Update 2011/05/29 [655KB] |