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Stachyurus praecox(family: Stachyuraceae)

Japanese name: Kibusi

This plant is distributed throughout Japan at mountainside Japanese name is from that we use this seed for black-dye.

My observation records:

17/Apr/'99 Mt. Oike Suzuka-range blooming at the begining of mountain-trail
11/Apr/'98 Fujioka Aichi-pref blooming
14/Apr/'96 Higashiyama-park Nagora blooming