Panax japonicus var. japonicus f. dichrocarpus("Soshishiyoninjin")
Japanese name: ソウシシヨウニンジン（相思子様人参） Scientific name:Panax japonicus var. japonicus f. dichrocarpus
[Overview]
A perennial 50–80 cm tall, found in mountain forests.
It has thick, white rhizomes with many nodes.
Three to five leaves are whorled at the stem tip; they are palmately compound, usually with 5 leaflets.
The leaflets are obovate, 10–30 cm long and 2–7 cm wide, with serrated margins.
The leaf stalk is 5–10 cm long.
A spherical umbel is borne at the tip of a long flower stalk.
The flowers are small, 3 mm across, and pale yellowish green with 5 petals.
The fruit is a spherical drupe about 6 mm across that ripens red, with the upper part turning black.
[Uses]
The rhizome is used medicinally.
[Notes]
The Japanese name derives from the fruit resembling soshishi (the seeds of the rosary pea, Abrus precatorius).
