Japanese name: チョウセンナニワズ Scientific name:Daphne koreana
[Overview]
A deciduous shrub 0.5–1 m tall, growing on limestone ground in the mountains.
The leaves are alternate and crowded at the branch tips; they are oblong and rather thin, the lateral veins branch irregularly, and the margins are entire.
The leaves fall in late autumn, new leaves appear in spring, and the plant grows thickly in summer.
It is said to be dioecious.
Several flowers bloom in bundle-like clusters at the base of the new branches that grow in spring.
The flowers have no petals; the calyx is 4-lobed, and the lobes are 2.5–5.5 mm long, about half the length of the calyx tube (5–9 mm).
The calyx is yellowish green on the inside and often deep reddish purple on the outside.
The female flowers are slightly smaller.
The fruit is an oval berry about 8 mm long that ripens red; it is pungent and poisonous.
