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Cardamine torrentis

Cardamine torrentis ("Okuyamagarashi")

Japanese name: オクヤマガラシ (奥山芥子)
Scientific name: Cardamine torrentis

Cardamine torrentis

[Overview]
A perennial found along streams in the mountains.
It has a long creeping rhizome.
The stem is 20–60 cm long, thick and erect in the upper part, and is entirely hairless or hairy only at the base.
The leaves are alternate and odd-pinnately compound, 5–12 cm long, with 5–9 leaflets.
The leaflets are ovate-round to ovate-oblong, 1.5–4 cm long and 1–3.5 cm wide, with shallow wavy teeth on the margins.
The flowers are borne in racemes and are white and four-petaled.
The petals are obovate, 7–10 mm long.
There are 6 stamens.
The fruit is a silique 2.5–3.5 cm long, slightly ascending.

Details

Names
Japanese: オクヤマガラシ(奥山芥子)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Terrestrial
Flowering season
May, June, July
Distribution or origin
Japan (Honshu: southern Fukushima to Chubu region, Tokushima, Kumamoto, Miyazaki)
Leaf shape
Odd-pinnate compound leaf
Leaf margin
Dentate
Inflorescence
Raceme
Number of petals
4
Flower color
White
Leaf color
Green

Translated from our Japanese encyclopedia. If anything differs, the Japanese page is correct.

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