Shirasawa Homi

Shirasawa Homi (* 1868 ; † 1947 , Japanese 白 沢 保 美 ) also Miho Shirasawa , was a Japanese botanist and forest adviser specializing in dendrology . He dealt in particular with tree secretions, such as camphor . Its official botanical author abbreviation is “ Shiras. ".

Named after him is the beautiful fruit hybrid Callicarpa × shirasawana Makino, the elm Ulmus shirasawana Daveaudie (see Chinese elm ), and the maple species Acer shirasawanum Koidzumi (Japanese 大 板 屋 名 月 Ōitayameigetsu ); distributed in several cultivars as a dwarf natural " bonsai ", known is v. a. the variety Aureum, "golden maple".

Shirasawa Homi is the first to describe the Koyama spruce species ( Picea koyamae Shiras.), The Japanese Douglas fir ( Pseudotsuga japonica (Shiras.) Beissn.), The Japanese linden ( Tilia kiusiana Makino et Shiras.) And Tilia maximowicziana Shiras.

Works

• Iconography des essences forestières du Japon , Maurice de Brunoff, Paris 1899–1947 (his main work)
• Revue des cultures coloniales , XIII, 1903, p. 369.
• Alexander Tschirch , Homi Shirasawa: Investigations on the secretions. About the formation of camphor in the camphor tree . Pharmaceutical Institute of the University of Bern. Archives of Pharmacy , Volume 240, Issue 4, pp. 257-259.

literature

• Isoya Shinji, Toshio Hamaya: Who was Who on City Planning in Japan . City Planning Review, Volume 170, July 4, 1991, p. 84

Web links

• Acer shirasawanum
• Author entry and list of the described plant names for Shirasawa Homi at the IPNI

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Shirasawa is the family name, Homi the first name.