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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
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 ...
The forest is composed of a variety of conifers and broad-leaved trees and shrubs, including Chamaecyparis obtusa, [10] Cryptomeria japonica, [11] Pinus densiflora and P. parviflora, Tsuga sieboldii, Japanese maples (including Acer distylum, A. micranthum, A. sieboldianum and A. tschonoskii), Betula grossa, Chengiopanax sciadophylloides (or ...
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It includes only one species, Cryptomeria japonica (syn. Cupressus japonica L.f.). It is considered to be endemic to Japan, where it is known as Sugi . [2] The tree is called Japanese cedar [3] or Japanese redwood [4] [5] in English. It has been extensively introduced and cultivated for wood production on the Azores. Cone and seed
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