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Sansai
is a Japanese word literally meaning "mountain vegetables", originally referring to vegetables that grew naturally, were foraged in the wild, and not grown and harvested from fields. However, in modern times, the distinction is somewhat blurred, as some ''sansai'' such as ''warabi'' have been successfully cultivated. For example, some of the fern shoots such as bracken ( fiddlehead) and ''zenmai'' shipped to market are farm-grown. They are often sold pre-cooked in water, and typically packaged in plastic packs in liquid. The fern shoots ''warabi'' (bracken), ''fuki'' stalks in sticks, and mixes which may contain the above-mentioned combined with baby bamboo shoots, mushrooms, etc., are available in retail supermarkets, and ethnic foodstores in the US. ''Sansai'' are often used as ingredients in shōjin ryōri, or Buddhist vegetarian cuisine. Examples Sansai include: * ''Chishimazasa'' (チシマザサ), ''Nemagaridake'' - bamboo shoots of ''Sasa kurilensis''. * ''Fuki-no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reynoutria Japonica
''Reynoutria japonica'', synonyms ''Fallopia japonica'' and ''Polygonum cuspidatum'', is a species of herbaceous perennial plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae. Common names include Japanese knotweed and Asian knotweed. It is native to East Asia in Japan, China and Korea. In North America and Europe, the species has successfully established itself in numerous habitats, and is classified as a pest and invasive species in several countries. Japanese knotweed has hollow stems with distinct raised node (botany), nodes that give it the appearance of bamboo, though it is not related. While stems may reach a maximum height of each growing season, it is typical to see much smaller plants in places where they sprout through cracks in the pavement or are repeatedly cut down. The leaf, leaves are broad oval with a truncated base, long and broad, with an entire margin. The flowers are small, cream or white, produced in erect racemes long in late summer and early autumn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chengiopanax Sciadophylloides
''Chengiopanax sciadophylloides'' is a flowering tree in the family Araliaceae native to Japan. Previously included in the genus '' Eleutherococcus'', it is distinguished from other members of that genus by not having spines or prickles and ITS sequence data confirmed the separation. Chemistry ''Chengiopanax sciadophylloides'' has been found to be a specific hyperaccumulator of manganese even in soils not contaminated with excessive amounts of manganese. In wild plants manganese concentrations of up to of dried leaf have been analyzed. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 it was found that ''Chengiopanax sciadophylloides'' accumulated the radioactive isotope Caesium-137 to concentrations above the human consumption guideline of 100 becquerels per kilogram of fresh weight even as far away as Nagano and Iwate Prefectures. Analysis of leaves taken from ''Chengiopanax sciadophylloides'' in August and October 2013 from a forest northwest of the Fukushim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fiddlehead Fern
Fiddleheads or fiddlehead greens are the furled fronds of a young fern, harvested for use as a vegetable. Left on the plant, each fiddlehead would unroll into a new frond ( circinate vernation). As fiddleheads are harvested early in the season before the frond has opened and reached its full height, they are cut fairly close to the ground. Fiddleheads contain a compound associated with bracken toxicity. The fiddlehead resembles the curled ornamentation (called a ''scroll'') on the end of a stringed instrument, such as a fiddle. It is also called a crozier, after the curved staff used by bishops, which has its origins in the shepherd's crook. Varieties The fiddleheads of certain ferns are eaten as a cooked leaf vegetable. The most popular of these are: * Bracken, ''Pteridium aquilinum'', found worldwide (Toxic if not cooked fully) * Ostrich fern, ''Matteuccia struthiopteris'', found in northern regions worldwide, and the central/eastern part of North America '' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allium Ochotense
''Allium ochotense'', the Siberian onion, is a primarily East Asian species of wild onion native to northern Japan, Korea, China, and the Russian Far East, as well as on Attu Island in Alaska. Some authors have considered ''A. ochotense'' as belonging to the same species as '' A. victorialis'', but more recent authorities have treated it as a distinct species. Description ''Allium ochotense'' grows to in height, (world encyclopedia, in Japanese), article on ''gyōja ninniku'' by botanist with a strong garlic-like odor, and has "bulbs.. surrounded by a grayish-brown, netlike coating. The leaves are 1–3 glabrous, broadly elliptic,... perianth (flower) whitish-green".Hultén, Eric (1968). Flora of Alaska and Neighboring Territories: A Manual of the Vascular Plants. Stanford University Press. p. 307. . The plant is slow-growing, and aside from seed-propagation, "''A. victorialis'' has two vegetative propagation systems; one is tillering and the other is adventitious buds" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteuccia Struthiopteris 2005 Spring 002
''Matteuccia'' is a genus of ferns with one species: ''Matteuccia struthiopteris'' (common names ostrich fern, fiddlehead fern, or shuttlecock fern). The species epithet ''struthiopteris'' comes from Ancient Greek words () "ostrich" and () "fern". Description The fronds are dimorphic, with the deciduous green sterile fronds being almost vertical, tall and broad, long-tapering to the base but short-tapering to the tip, so that they resemble ostrich plumes, hence the name. The fertile fronds are shorter, long, brown when ripe, with highly modified and constricted leaf tissue curled over the sporangia; they develop in autumn, persist erect over the winter and release the spores in early spring. Along with '' Dryopteris goldieana'', it is one of the largest species of fern in eastern North America. Classification ''Matteuccia struthiopteris'' is the only species in the genus ''Matteuccia''. Some sources include two Asian species, ''M. orientalis'' and ''M. intermedia'', but mole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laportea Macrostachya
''Laportea'' is a genus of plants in the family Urticaceae. They are herbaceous, either annual or perennial. Like many plants of the Urticaceae, they have stinging hairs. There are stinging and non-stinging hairs on the same plant. The genus was named after the French naturalist Francis de Laporte de Castelnau.Weddell, H. A. Chloris Andina. 1857''Essai d'une flore de la region alpine des Cordilleres de l'Amerique du Sud'' Vol. 1. Bertrand. Species , Kew's Plants of the World Online Plants of the World Online (POWO) is an online database published by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. It was launched in March 2017 with the ultimate aim being "to enable users to access information on all the world's known seed-bearing plants ... lists 36 species in the genus ''Laportea'': References * Urticaceae genera Taxa named by François-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Urticaceae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matteuccia Struthiopteris
''Matteuccia'' is a genus of ferns with one species: ''Matteuccia struthiopteris'' (common names ostrich fern, fiddlehead fern, or shuttlecock fern). The species epithet ''struthiopteris'' comes from Ancient Greek words () "ostrich" and () "fern". Description The fronds are dimorphic, with the deciduous green sterile fronds being almost vertical, tall and broad, long-tapering to the base but short-tapering to the tip, so that they resemble ostrich plumes, hence the name. The fertile fronds are shorter, long, brown when ripe, with highly modified and constricted leaf tissue curled over the sporangia; they develop in autumn, persist erect over the winter and release the spores in early spring. Along with '' Dryopteris goldieana'', it is one of the largest species of fern in eastern North America. Classification ''Matteuccia struthiopteris'' is the only species in the genus ''Matteuccia''. Some sources include two Asian species, ''M. orientalis'' and ''M. intermedia'', but m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cryptotaenia Canadensis
''Cryptotaenia canadensis'', the Canadian honewort, is a perennial plant species native to the eastern United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 U.S. state, states, a Washington, D.C., federal district, five ma ... and eastern Canada. Its young leaves and stems can be used as a boiled green or seasoning similar to parsley. The parsniplike roots can be cooked and eaten. References {{Taxonbar, from=Q15570245 Flora of North America Apioideae Plants described in 1753 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anemone Flaccida
''Anemonastrum flaccidum'', the flaccid anemone or soft windflower, is a plant species in the family Ranunculaceae. It is a perennial growing to 0.1 m (0ft 4in). Features Depending on the region, it flowers between March and June. The flowers are about 2 cm in diameter with white calyx. Many stems have two flower stalks characteristically extending from one stem, and this is the origin of the plant's Japanese name (literally, 'two-flowered plant'). The plant spreads with rhizomes, and so it often forms communities. Range ''Anemonastrum flaccidum'' occurs naturally along the Amur River; in Sakhalin; in central, eastern and southern China; in Korea and in Japan. It is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant Ornamental plants or garden plants are plants that are primarily grown for their beauty but also for qualities such as scent or how they shape physical space. Many flowering plants and garden varieties tend to be specially bred cultivars that ... in places such as Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parasenecio Delphiniifolius
''Parasenecio'' is a genus of flowering plants in the groundsel tribe within the sunflower family. Most of the species are Asian, but one ''(P. auriculatus)'' occurs in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska Alaska ( ; russian: Аляска, Alyaska; ale, Alax̂sxax̂; ; ems, Alas'kaaq; Yup'ik: ''Alaskaq''; tli, Anáaski) is a state located in the Western United States on the northwest extremity of North America. A semi-exclave of the U.S .... ; SpeciesFlann, C (ed) 2009+ Global Compositae Checklist References External links * * Senecioneae[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aconitum
''Aconitum'' (), also known as aconite, monkshood, wolf's-bane, leopard's bane, mousebane, women's bane, devil's helmet, queen of poisons, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae. These herbaceous perennial plants are chiefly native to the mountainous parts of the Northern Hemisphere in North America, Europe, and Asia; growing in the moisture-retentive but well-draining soils of mountain meadows. Most ''Aconitum'' species are extremely poisonous and must be handled very carefully. Several ''Aconitum'' hybrids, such as the Arendsii form of '' Aconitum carmichaelii'', have won gardening awards—such as the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Some are used by florists. Etymology The name ''aconitum'' comes from the Greek word , which may derive from the Greek ''akon'' for dart or javelin, the tips of which were poisoned with the substance, or from ''akonae'', because of the rocky ground on w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
