Erythronium japonicum

Erythronium japonicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Subfamily: Lilioideae
Tribe: Lilieae
Genus: Erythronium
Species:
E. japonicum
Binomial name
Erythronium japonicum
Synonyms[1]
  • Erythronium japonicum Poit.
  • Erythronium japonicum f. album C.F. Fang
  • Erythronium japonicum f. immaculatum P.Y.Fu & Q.S.Sun
  • Erythronium japonicum f. immaculatum Sun, Q.S.
  • Erythronium japonicum var. leucanthum I.Yamam. & Tsukam.
  • Erythronium japonicum f. leucanthum (I.Yamam. & Tsukam.) Okuyama

Erythronium japonicum, known as Asian fawn lily,[2] Oriental fawn lily, Japanese fawn lily is a pink-flowered species trout lily, belonging to the Lily family and native to Japan, Korea, the Russian Far East (Sakhalin Island, Kuril Islands) and northeastern China (Jilin and Liaoning).[3][4] It is a spring ephemeral, blooming April–June in woodlands. It is known as zhūyáhuā (猪牙花) in Chinese, eolleji (얼레지) in Korean, and katakuri (片栗) in Japanese.

Erythronium japonicum has a stem up to 20 centimetres (7.9 in) long, although as much as 30% of the stem may be underground. Bulb is elongated, up to 6 cm (2.4 in) long but rarely more than 1 cm wide (0.39 in). Leaves are broadly elliptical to lanceolate, the blade up to 12 cm (4.7 in) long and 7 cm (2.8 in) wide. Flowers are solitary, rose-colored.[3][5][6][7][8][9]

Applying the generic common name trout lily may be somewhat of a misnomer, because in the Japanese species, the individual plant may or may not exhibit the flecked dark markings on the leaves, which is emblematic of that common name (see gallery below).

  1. ^ The Plant List
  2. ^ English Names for Korean Native Plants (PDF). Pocheon: Korea National Arboretum. 2015. p. 358. ISBN 978-89-97450-98-5. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2017. Retrieved 4 January 2017 – via Korea Forest Service.
  3. ^ a b Flora of China v 24 p 126
  4. ^ "Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families". apps.kew.org.
  5. ^ Decaisne, Joseph. 1854. Revue Horticole, sér. 4, 3: 284.
  6. ^ P.Y.Fu & Q.S.Sun. 1992. Flora Liaoningica 2: 1159.
  7. ^ I.Yamam. & Tsukam. 1932. Flora Hakodate 192.
  8. ^ Sun, Q.S. 1995. Bulletin of Botanical Research, Harbin 15(3): 332–333.
  9. ^ Okuyama. 1955. Journal of Japanese Botany 30: 32.