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Adenophora remotiflora(family: Campanulaceae)

Japanese name: Sobana

This plant grows partial shade of trees or roadside of mountain road. There are some opinions for origine of Japanese name Soba-na. One is that this plant is edible plant and they cooks like Soba(Soba is very popular noodle now in Japan, which is made from the seed of Soba-plant).

My observation records:

03/July/'99 Norikura-highland Nagano-pref blooming
29/Aug/'98 Kaida-highland some flower blooming