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Adoxa moschatellina var. moschatellina
Adoxa moschatellina var. moschatellina

Adoxa moschatellina var. moschatellina (moschatel, "Renpukuso")

Japanese name: レンプクソウ (連福草)
Scientific name: Adoxa moschatellina var. moschatellina

Adoxa moschatellina var. moschatellina

[Overview]
A perennial 5–15 cm tall, found mainly in forests along streams.
The whole plant is soft and hairless.
It extends slender underground stems and often forms small colonies.
There are basal leaves and stem leaves; 1–2 basal leaves appear, and they are twice ternately compound, with pinnately divided leaflets.
The stem leaves are opposite, with only one pair, and are 3-lobed.
Five flowers gather in a head at the stem tip.
The flowers are small and yellowish green; the terminal flower has a 4-lobed corolla and 8 stamens, while the surrounding flowers have a corolla with 5–6 lobes and 10–12 stamens.
The fruit is a spherical drupe.

Details

Names
English: moschatel, five-faced bishop, hollowroot, muskroot, townhall clock, tuberous crowfoot, Good Friday plant
Japanese: レンプクソウ(連福草)、ゴリンバナ(五輪花)
Life form
Perennial
Habit
Terrestrial
Flowering season
March, April, May
Distribution or origin
Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu: Kinki region eastward, northern Kyushu), Northern Hemisphere temperate zone, northwestern Africa
Height
50–100 mm
Leaf shape
Lobed leaf
Leaf arrangement
Opposite, Basal
Flower color
Yellow, Green
Flower diameter
4–6
Leaf color
Green

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

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