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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.
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.
The cultivar 'Forest Flame' is a large shrub to 4 m (13 ft), with leaves which go from red to pink to green. This compact, upright shrub is a cross between P. formosa ‘Wakehurst’ and P. japonica grows 12′ feet tall and half as wide It produces small urn-shaped cream-coloured flowers in spring. It is not a cultivar of Pieris floribunda.
The 'Wakehurst' cultivar of the variety Pieris formosa var. forrestii has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit as an ornamental, and is also considered by them as a good plant to attract pollinators. [3] A vigorous evergreen shrub to 4 m (13 ft) in height, its leaves open red in early spring, turning green later. The ...
Hydrangea (/ h aɪ ˈ d r eɪ n dʒ ə / [3] [4] or / h aɪ ˈ d r eɪ n dʒ i ə / [5]), commonly named the hortensia, is a genus of more than 70 species of flowering plants native to Asia and the Americas. By far the greatest species diversity is in eastern Asia, notably China, Korea, and Japan.
The eggs are laid singly on a wide range of food plants including hedge mustard (Sisymbrium officinale), garlic mustard (Alliaria petiolata), cuckooflower (Cardamine pratense), water-cress (Rorippa nastutium-aquaticum), charlock (Sinapis arvensis), large bitter-cress (Cardamine amara), wild cabbage (Brassica oleracea), and wild radish (Raphanus raphanistrum), and so it is rarely a pest in ...
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