Indigofera bungeana var. bungeana ("Tokomatsunagi")

Japanese name: トウコマツナギ （唐駒繋）
Scientific name: Indigofera bungeana var. bungeana

[Overview]
A deciduous shrub 40–100 cm tall.
Some reach 4 m at times.
The stems and leaves have white hairs branching in a T shape.
The leaves are alternate and odd-pinnately compound, consisting of 5–11 leaflets.
The leaflets are elliptic, 0.5–2.5 cm long and 0.3–1.5 cm wide.
Racemes 4–10 cm long emerge from the leaf axils, bearing fairly dense, pale pink pea-shaped flowers 0.4–0.6 cm long.
The fruit is a cylindrical legume 2–2.5 cm long.

[History]
It was introduced from China for slope greening.

[Notes]
Some views treat it as the same species as Komatsunagi.

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