Farfugium

Japanese: Farfugium
Farfugium

...A perennial herb of the Asteraceae family that grows on the coasts of Japan, the southern part of the Korean Peninsula, Taiwan, and central China, from Fukushima Prefecture southward on the Pacific coast, and from Ishikawa Prefecture southward on the Japan Sea coast. The rhizome is thick, and it bears evergreen leaves with long stalks. Young leaves are covered with gray-brown fluff, but mature leaves are almost hairless, and the upper surface of the leaf is dark green and glossy. The leaf blade is large and circular-reniform with irregular teeth on the edge. Flowers appear from October to December in the form of a somewhat corymb-like flower head at the end of a thick flower stalk. The flower head consists of a bisexual tubular flower in the center and female ray flowers on the periphery. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Farfugium" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…太平洋側では福島県以南,日本海側では石川県以南の日本,朝鮮半島南部,台湾および中国中部の海岸に生育するキク科の多年草(イラスト)。根茎は太く,長い柄のある常緑の葉を根生する。若葉は灰褐色の綿毛をかぶっているが,生長した葉はほぼ無毛となり,葉の表は濃緑色で光沢がある。葉身は円状腎形で大きく,縁に不整歯牙がある。花は10~12月,太い花茎の先にやや散房状につく頭花である。頭花は中央部の両性の筒状花と周辺部の雌性の舌状花とからなる。…

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