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After finding this form in a Shanghai graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce cultivars of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida .
Together with several closely related species and hybrids between these species, in horticulture these plants are often referred to as Japanese anemones. [ 2 ] The specific epithet hupehensis , which means "from Hupeh (Hupei, Hubei ) province, China", [ 3 ] refers to a region where the species is known to occur.
Japanese anemone is a common name for Eriocapitella japonica, a species of flowering plant in the family Ranunculaceae. The common name Japanese anemone is also used for several other species of flowering plants in the genus Eriocapitella, including: Eriocapitella hupehensis; Eriocapitella × hybrida, the Japanese anemone hybrid; Eriocapitella ...
This form of E. hupehensis, brought to England from China by the plant explorer Robert Fortune in 1843, became known as the Japanese anemone (E. japonica). European horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia , a wide-ranging Asian species with white sepals.
Anemone (/ ə ˈ n ɛ m ə n iː /) is a genus of flowering plants in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae.Plants of the genus are commonly called windflowers. [2] They are native to the temperate and subtropical regions of all regions except Australia, New Zealand, and Antarctica. [1]
This anemone was found during an exploration of the Alba Seamount which has been dated back to the Cretaceous period.
The coast of California north of San Francisco contains the Northern California coastal forests (as defined by the WWF) and the southern section of the Coast Range ecoregion (as defined by the EPA). This ecoregion is dominated by redwood forest , containing the tallest and some of the oldest trees in the world.
The Atlantic Ocean meets the Indian Ocean south of Africa at Cape Agulhas. The Indian Ocean, the third largest, extends northward from the Southern Ocean to India, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia in Asia, and between Africa in the west and Australia in the east. The Indian Ocean joins the Pacific Ocean to the east, near Australia.