Fuji - Fuji

Japanese: クサフジ - くさふじ

A perennial herb of the legume family (APG classification: Fabaceae). The stem is vine-like and 1.5 meters long. The leaves have 18-24 leaflets, and the tips branch into tendrils that wrap around other plants. The leaflets are narrowly ovate and 1-3 cm long. From May to September, long racemes in the leaf axils produce dense, slightly lopsided, blue-purple, butterfly-shaped flowers that are about 1 cm long. The calyx is rather small, and the sepals are unequal in length and shorter than the calyx tube. The legumes contain 2-6 seeds, are oblong, 2-3 cm long, and have short pedicels. They grow in grasslands and forest edges in the mountains and fields of Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu, and are widely distributed from the temperate to subarctic zones of the Northern Hemisphere.

[Yoichi Tateishi October 18, 2019]

Wisteria
The leaves have 18 to 24 leaflets, and at the tip, branching tendrils form that wrap around other plants. From May to September, the long racemes in the leaf axils produce blue-purple, butterfly-shaped flowers that are slightly skewed to one side. ©Shogakukan Photo by Masatoshi Hirose ">

Wisteria

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Japanese:

マメ科（APG分類：マメ科）の多年草。茎はつる状で、長さ1.5メートル。葉は18～24枚の小葉をつけ、先端は分枝する巻きひげとなって他物に絡む。小葉は狭卵形、長さ1～3センチメートル。5～9月、葉腋(ようえき)の長い総状花序に、青紫色で長さ約1センチメートルの蝶形花(ちょうけいか)が密にやや一方に偏ってつく。萼(がく)はやや小さく、萼片は不同長で萼筒より短い。豆果は2～6個の種子を含み、長楕円(ちょうだえん)形で長さ2～3センチメートル、短柄がある。北海道、本州、九州の山野の草地や林縁に生え、北半球の温帯から亜寒帯に広く分布する。

［立石庸一　2019年10月18日］

クサフジ

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