Kadsura japonica
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Kadsura japonica is a species of plant in the star anise family from Japan , Taiwan and Korea . In Japan the plant is known as Sanekazura (サ ネ カ ズ ラ or さ ね か ず ら ).
description
Kadsura japonica grows as an evergreen , woody climbing plant a few meters high and wide. The plants are bare.
The simple, short-stalked and slightly leathery leaves are alternate. The leaf stalk is up to about 2 inches long. The entire to more or less finely serrated to -sawed leaves are 6.5–12 inches long and 3–6 inches wide. They are ovate to elliptical or obovate, at the top they are rounded to pointed or pointed. The stipules are missing.
Kadsura japonica is monoecious or dioecious dioecious . The flowers appear solitary and axillary on young shoots. The longer or shorter stalked, unisexual and yellow flowers are with a simple flower cover . The 8–12 free, up to 6.5–11.5 millimeters long tepals are in two circles, the outer one is smaller and sepaloid, the inner petaloid. The flower base is enlarged ellipsoidally to clubbed. The male, up to 2.5 centimeters long stalked flowers have many (up to 50) densely packed stamens , with partly overgrown stamens, in a spherical head; at the tip of the head the red, free anthers are present or absent. The female, to 4 centimeters long stemmed flowers have many (30-45) free and above-permanent carpels with a stigmatic comb and a very small (pseudo stylus ).
Spherical collective fruits are formed, with some red, rounded and small, about 6-10 millimeters in size, to three-seeded, smooth single fruits, berries with some "pseudo-fluted remains" on a fleshy, enlarged flower base . The flattened, smooth and brownish seeds are kidney-shaped and up to 4–5 millimeters in size.
The number of chromosomes is 2n = 28.
use
The fruits are edible and are used raw or cooked. A brew made from the fruit is used medicinally, as is dried fruit.
The phlegm from the leaves is used to make Japanese paper , Washi.
A sticky juice made from rind and fruit is used as a pomade .
literature
- Richard MK Saunders: Species Plantarum: Flora of the World. Part 4: Schisandraceae , Australian Biological Resources Study, 2001, ISBN 0-642-56810-3 , online (PDF; 3.3 MB).
- K. Kubitzki , Jens G. Rohwer , Volker Bittrich: The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants. Vol. II, Flowering Plants Dicotyledons , Springer, 1993, ISBN 978-3-642-08141-5 (Reprint), p. 589 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Kadsura japonica. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Retrieved June 4, 2020.
Web links
- Kadsura japonica at Useful Tropical Plants.