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posted: May 31st, 2010 |
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As I said on the previous page, this page begins where Page 1 left off - at 8:42 AM on May 1st. This page ends at 9:41 AM on May 3rd with a trip to Sabane-Yama, a small mountain near Kazuya's house. Click on any thumbnail to begin.
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Okay, Page 1 ended on May 1st at 8:35 AM. This page picks up from there. We are now hiking DOWN from the HaHaNoShira Waterfall back towards the bus stop. Now the sun is high enough so that we can take photos which we could not take on our way up this trail. Here are 3 beautiful Viola rossii photos. We saw so many of this species on this trail that we were shocked.
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This is the violet we came to this specific place to find! It is Viola mirabilis var. subglabra. You saw this violet last month on the trail from Nagasaka Train Station to Hinoharu Station (Page 3), but it was not as beautiful there as it is here. Maybe the soil is better here or the weather is better - who knows? Anyway, we noticed that fact when we were at Nagasaka - we said to each other "this is not as pretty as the Viola mirabilis var. subglabra along the HaHaNoShira Waterfall trail".
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Here is another shot of Viola mirabilis var. subglabra and then a Chloranthus japonicus with a Viola mirabilis var. subglabra growing at its base. The 3rd shot is another Viola mirabilis var. subglabra. That's all for May 1st - we went back to the Kawaguchi Lake Train Station and headed for home. We downloaded our photos to our computers, did laundry and so on and then headed back out the next morning for Kazuya's hometown - Funagata, in Yamagata Prefecture.
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| End May 1st, Begin May 2nd |
On the right is the Shinkansen Train we took from Tokyo to Shinjo Station in Yamagata Prefecture. On the left is the local train we took from Shinjo to Kazuya's hometown of Funagata - that was 1 stop BACK in the direction we had just come from, but the Shinkansen Train doesn't stop at Funagata. The 2nd shot is an Asarum sieboldii - a new species of Asarum for us. This was just up on the small mountain behind Kazuya's house. The 3rd shot is a beautiful Trout Lily (Erythronium japonicum) - also behind Kazuya's house.
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In this row the first photo is an Anemone pseudoaltaica. This sometimes has a bluish/purplish flower and sometimes a pure white flower. The bluish flowered ones are more photogenic. The next 2 photos are Trillium smallii. This, unlike the Trillium species on Page 1 (Row 12), was not a new species for us, but this is a very beautiful one, with a larger than normal flower.
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Here are 3 photos of Viola vaginata. This is one which we also saw here last year, so not new for us, but very pretty. The first shot shows the leaf, the 2nd shot shows the flower spur and the 3rd photo shows the flower.
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Here is a shot of the root of Viola vaginata - it's obviously a perennial. The 2nd shot is an immature Anemone pseudoaltaica plant - a very beautiful immature pink color. The 3rd shot is another Trout Lily (Erythronium japonicum).
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Here are 2 shots of Heloniopsis orientalis and a shot of a somewhat mutated Anemone pseudoaltaica.
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Here is a new flower for us. Kazuya managed to identify this as Coptis japonica. It is followed by a white flowered version of Anemone pseudoaltaica and then the final shot in this row is another Coptis japonica.
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Here you can see a great shot of Viola hondoensis and then 2 shots of Trout Lily (Erythronium japonicum.
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The first shot here is a Trout Lily (Erythronium japonicum) and an Anemone pseudoaltaica growing side-by-side. The 2nd shot shows you that on this date (May 2nd) there was still snow in this small creek-bed. The 3rd shot is a Viola rostrata. We also saw this one here last year
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Here are 2 very beautiful shots of Viola vaginata followed by a shot of a VERY tiny violet - Viola violacea var. makinoi. We found this one here last year too, but not in this precise spot. This violet is quite fussy about where it will grow and we are always extremely excited to find it. And, that's all for May 2nd.
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We started May 3rd with Kazuya's father taking us to his small farm. On the hillside above his farm lots of exciting plants grow. Here is another beautiful example of Trillium smallii. It is followed by 2 beautiful shots of Lysichiton camtschatcense, or Skunk Cabbage.
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In first position in this row you can find a fine example of Viola vaginata. In 2nd position is a final shot of Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton camtschatcense). Then, in 3rd position is a thick little patch of Chrysosplenium pilosum var. sphaerospermum.
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Next, Kazuya's father took us to a small mountain - Sabane Yama - to ask us to identify a strange flower for him. You can see the flower in the 1st and 2nd shots in this row. It is Epigaea asiatica. WHEW! We knew it, as we had seen it before, when we visited Kusatsu. The 3rd photo is a shot from Sabane Yama looking out at the scenery.
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Here is a final shot of Epigaea asiatica and then a shot of a Mountain Cherry tree with flowers. This is not the end of May 3rd - it's now only 9:41 AM. We still have another adventure planned for this day, so please continue on to Page.
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| End Page 2, but May 3rd continues on Page 3 |
| Thanks so much for taking the time to look at this page. Now, please go on to Page 3 for the continuation of May 3rd - a trip to Ichi No Taki (Waterfall). |
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