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Pieris japonica, the Japanese andromeda or Japanese pieris, is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae. It is native to eastern China, Taiwan, and Japan, where it grows in mountain thickets. [2] This medium-sized evergreen shrub or tree is widely cultivated in gardens.
Pieris (/ ˈ p aɪ. ər ɪ s / or / ˈ p ɪər ɪ s / [1]) [2] is a genus of seven species of shrubs in the flowering plant family Ericaceae, native to mountain regions of eastern and southern Asia, eastern North America and Cuba.
Pieris brassicae brassicae (Linnaeus, 1758) Pieris canidia canidia (Sparrman, 1768) Pieris canidia kaolicola Bryk, 1946; Pieris tomariana Matsumura, 1928; Pieris melete Ménétriès, 1857; Pieris nesis japonica Shirôzu, 1952; Pieris nesis nesis Fruhstorfer, 1909; Pieris rapae crucivora Boisduval, 1836; Pontia edusa davendra Hemming, 1934
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Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread, now almost cosmopolitan, genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae.The highest species diversity is in the Palearctic, with a higher diversity in Europe and eastern North America than the similar and closely related Pontia.
P. x (P. formosa 'Wakehurst' x P. japonica) 'Forest Flame' Pieris floribunda is a North American species of broadleaf evergreen shrub, a member of the fetterbush genus in the blueberry family (Ericaceae). It is commonly known in North America as mountain fetterbush [3] or mountain andromeda. [4] All parts of Pieris floribunda are poisonous if ...
Pieris japonica subsp. formosa (Wall.) Kitam. Kitam. Pieris formosa , called the Taiwan pieris or the Himalayan andromeda , is a species of flowering plant in the genus Pieris native to Nepal, the eastern Himalaya, Assam in India, Myanmar, Vietnam, Tibet, central and southern China, but not Taiwan. [ 2 ]
The andromeda lace bug (Stephanitis takeyai) is a pest insect on plants of the genus Pieris, especially Pieris japonica, the Japanese andromeda. It originated in Japan with its host plant but has since been introduced to other areas of the globe. At least one Pieris species, Pieris floribunda, is resistant to the bug.