[Picture Book of Wild Grasses] (7) Tricyrtis / Karukaya / Heikotai / Turmeric / Hollyhock / Althaea

Tricyrtisyamahototogisu

Tricyrtishototogisuso.
The shape of the flower is like a common cuckoo, and the color is like the feathers of that birdtori. It has spots. The leaves are rounder than a common cuckoo, and the flowers bloom earlier. It blooms in the seventh and eighth months. Chinese namekanmei, Saururus chinensissanpakuso.

Karukaya

Chinese name, Oatsenbaku.
The leaves are like Bromuschahikigusa, and the flowers are the same. The color of the flowers, leaves, and stems are all black and stiff. It blooms in the seventh month. In waka poetry, it is also read as 'tatakaya'. It is also read in various ways in poems, such as 'shiromekaya'.

* The reading of 'Bromuschahikigusa' is 'chahikigusa'. Another name for wild oatskarasumugi.
* 'Kuroku kowashi' means black and stiffkowashi.

Heikotaiheikotai

It blooms in the sixth, seventh, and eighth months. The leaves are similarnito Pulsatillahoounawith deep cuts, and the flower stalks stand up, with lapis-purple flowers blooming at the tipsuein the shape of a thistle. It is a veryshigokurare lapis, or perhaps it is also called hirai grass. It is also called hikotae.

Turmeric

Turmericukon.
The leaves are similar to Cannabijinsho. The shape of the flower is like a tall Petasites japonicusfukinohana, and it bloomssakuinside the leaves. The colorirois white and looks slightly translucent. It blooms in the eighth and ninth months.

HollyhockAoi

Also called KenkiKenki or Kara-aoiChinese Hollyhock. It blooms in the fifth month. There are crimson double-flowered and single-flowered varieties. The flower shapeflower shape is like that of a cottonwata flower. There are purple single-flowered and thousand-petaled varieties. There are snow-white thousand-petaled and single-flowered varieties. The GenjiGenji variety is light-colored with white edges on the flowers. There are double-flowered and single-flowered varieties. There are white-centered double-flowered and single-flowered varieties. The center of the flower is white.

AlceaShokuki

Also, those called red-centeredsoko-aka have red centers in the flowers. There are light ink-coloredsumi, light grayusu-nezumi colored, double-flowered, and single-flowered varieties.

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