Viola collina : {Japanese Name : Ezo-aoi Sumire}
Viola collina
Viola collina Viola collina
Tokyo / April 29, 2008 alt.=790m

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Yamanasi / April 3, 2010 alt.=1,020m
Section Nominium Gingins
Scientific Name Type species Viola collina Besser : {Ezo-aoi Sumire} Published in: Cat. hort. Cremeneci 151. (1816)
Variety
Form
Synonym
Viola teshioensis Miyabe et Tatew. : {Ezo-aoi Sumire}
Viola teshioensis Miyabe et Tatew. f. albiflora Tatew. : {Sirobana Ezo-aoi Sumire}
Viola atrichocarpa Borb.
Viola centronum Perrier
Viola declivis Des Moul.
Viola gymnocarpa Janka
Viola nipponica var. yezoana Koidz.
Viola opizii Knaf
Viola valesiaca Hausskn.
There are many others.
Origin
Common names 【Chinese】球果堇菜 (qiu guo jin cai), 【Taiwanese】球果菫菜, 【Korean】둥근털제비꽃
Stalk Form A flower scape is extended from a stalk, and a flower blooms from each scape.
Habitat It grows wild in the bottom of a bright deciduous forest, and the edge of a wood. In Honshu, it grows wild in the place where altitude is high.
Distribution Japan domestic From Hokkaido to the Honshu central part.
Japan overseas It is distributed over a wide area (East Asia, North Asia, Rossia to Europe).
Others
Flower Shape Middle size. An upper valve curves and a side valve is seldom opened.
Color The petal is light purple. Tthe purple-red line is in the petal.
Spur Whitish and small.
Season Early for alpine species.
Stigma Rod-shaped.
Aromatic Fragrant.
Others Petals tend to wavy.
Leaf Shape The leaves are round, but the tips are sharp, and the whole leaves rise vertically.
Color Both sides are green.
Others Overwintering leaves are not observed. Fine hairs are noticeable on the leaves.
Seed Shape
Color
Others It forms spherical, hairy fruits. Gently cleave on the ground. Ant-dispersed plant (Myrmecochorous type).
Characteristics of roots
Endangered Information Akita:ThreatenedⅠ, Saitama:Near Threatened
Type Specimen Amur.
Chromosome Number 2n=20
(LEE, Y. N. 1967. Chromosome Numbers of flowering plants in Korea. J. Korean Res. Inst. Ewha Women's Univ.)
Reference Information
Others It does not vegetatively propagate on the sword branch.

Viola collina Viola collina
Yamanasi / May 5, 2001 Lake Kawguchi
Viola collina The leaf covered with densely fine hair

has been standing.

When there was not a flower,

I may not have noticed it.
Viola collina Viola collina
Yamanasi / May 5, 2001 Lake Kawguchi
Viola collina A flower is not readily seen.
Nagano / June 2, 2007

Viola collina
Yamanasi / April 12, 2009 alt.=1,200m

Viola collina

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