What kind of growing environment is suitable for Kerria japonica?
Kerria japonica has been a favorite subject of literati and poets since ancient times. Kerria stands out among the flowers, and each leaf and each blossom is lovely in its abundance. Today let us get to know this lovely plant.
Botanical family and genus of Kerria japonica
Kerria japonica is a shrub plant of the genus Kerria in the subfamily Rosoideae, and it is a woody plant.
Alternative names of Kerria japonica
Kerria japonica is also called Ditang, Fengtang flower, Huangdumei, Jin Ditang Mei, and Huangyu Mei.
Place of origin of Kerria japonica
It is native to China from North China to South China, and is distributed in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, Henan, Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Gansu, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Beijing, Tianjin and other provinces.
Morphological characteristics of Kerria japonica
Kerria japonica grows up to 1-2 m tall, and its branchlets are green, cylindrical, and hairless.
The leaves are alternate, triangular-ovate or ovate-round, with a long acuminate tip and a rounded base; the petiole is 5-10 mm long and hairless.
The flowers are solitary, borne at the tips of lateral branches of the current year, and the pedicel is hairless; the flower diameter is 2.5-6 cm; the sepals are ovate-elliptic, acute at the tip, with a small mucro, entire, hairless, and persistent in fruit; the petals are yellow, broadly elliptic, concave at the tip, and 1-4 times longer than the sepals.
The achene is obovate to hemispherical, brown or dark brown, hairless, and wrinkled.
The flowering period of Kerria japonica is from April to June, and the fruiting period is from June to August.
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