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Kerria japonica (L.) DC.  
Family: Rosaceae
[Corchorus japonicus (L.) Thunb., moreKerria japonica f. plena C.K.Schneid., Kerria japonica f. pleniflora (Witte) Rehder, Kerria japonica f. semiplena Hayashi, Kerria japonica var. albescens Makino ex Koidz., Kerria japonica var. denticulata L.C.Wang & X.G.Sun, Kerria japonica var. pleniflora Witte, Kerria japonica var. stellata Makino, Rubus japonicus L.]
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Japan Flora: Much-branched shrub with slender, green, spreading, glabrous branches; leaves membranous, ovate or narrowly so, 3—7 cm. long, 2-3.5 cm. wide, long-acuminate, incised duplicate-toothed, vivid green, paler beneath, nearly glabrous; flowers 2.5-5 cm. across; calyx glabrous, the tube short, the segments broadly ovate to elliptic, spreading, denticulate; petals ovate-orbicular, spreading; achenes 4-5 mm. long. Apr.-May. Common in moun­tains.

Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu. Several cultivars are grown

Kerria japonica
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