Biology:Cardiocrinum cordatum

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Short description: Species of flowering plant

Cardiocrinum cordatum
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Cardiocrinum cordatum[1]
Scientific classification edit
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Monocots
Order: Liliales
Family: Liliaceae
Subfamily: Lilioideae
Tribe: Lilieae
Genus: Cardiocrinum
Species:
C. cordatum
Binomial name
Cardiocrinum cordatum
(Thunb.) Makino
Synonyms[2]

Cardiocrinum cordatum, also known as Turep in the Ainu Languages, is a Northeast Asian species of plants in the lily family. It is native to Japan and to certain Russia n islands in the Sea of Okhotsk (Sakhalin, Kuril Islands).[2][3][4][5]

Because of its large, showy flowers, Cardiocrinum cordatum is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental in regions outside its native range, though not as frequently as the related C. giganteum.[6][7]

The Ainu, a group indigenous to Hokkaido, harvested the bulbs. Starch was extracted and used to create a form of dumpling.[8]

The plant has reportedly become naturalized in the State of Maryland in the eastern United States .[2][9][10]

References

  1. illustration circa 1880 by Walter Hood Fitch (1817 - 1892), published in: Henry John Elwes: A monograph of the genus Lilium. Taylor and Francis, London 1880
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
  3. Makino, Tomitarô 1932. Journal of Japanese Botany 8: 6.
  4. Czerepanov, S.K. (1995). Vascular Plants of Russia and Adjacent States (The Former USSR): 1-516. Cambridge University Press.
  5. Makino, Tomitarô 1913. Shokubutsu-gaku zasshi 27:124
  6. Rare Plants UK
  7. Plant World Seeds
  8. 萩中美枝 (1992). Kikigaki Ainu no shokuji. Haginaka. Mie, 萩中美枝.. Tōkyō: Nō-san-gyoson Bunka Kyōkai. ISBN 4-540-92004-9. OCLC 28495951. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28495951. 
  9. Biota of North America Program 2014 county distribution map
  10. Youtube video, Cardiocrinum cordatum in a Maryland woodland 2/2

Wikidata ☰ Q2938076 entry