Japanese name: オオユリワサビ（大百合山葵） Scientific name:Eutrema okinosimense
[Overview]
A perennial 15–70 cm tall, found in deciduous forests and often forming colonies.
It has bulbil-like leaves in which the base of the leaf stalk is thickened.
These bulbil-like leaves detach and become new seedlings.
The leaves are simple, basal or alternate, ovate-cordate, with wavy teeth on the margin.
Right after flowering and fruiting, the leaves wither, leaving only the bases of the leaf stalks; in this state it passes the summer, and it puts out leaves again in late autumn.
A short raceme emerges at the stem tip.
The flowers are white with 4 petals, and the petals are about 6–9 mm long.
The fruit is a silique.
Japan (southwestern Hokkaido, Honshu: mainly the Sea of Japan side from the Oki Islands in Shimane and Hyogo eastward, Shikoku: Tokushima, Kyushu: Okinoshima in Fukuoka)
Height
150–700 mm
Leaf shape
Simple leaf (unlobed)
Leaf arrangement
Alternate, Basal
Leaf margin
Serrate
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.
