Adonis amurensis

Adonis ramosa

Location: Copilot
Location: Tonogayato Gardens
Location: Tonogayato Gardens
Location: Illust:Yuki @Kagiken (Science&Technology Inst.co.,Tokyo )
Location: Tonogayato Gardens
Location: Tonogayato Gardens
Location: Tonogayato Gardens

Flower name
Adonis amurensis
Scientific name
Adonis ramosa
Alias元日草, 福寿草, ガンジツソウ, Far East Amur adonis, アドニス・ラモサ
Place of originEast Asia including Japan
Place of floweringGarden, Low mountains
Flowering seasonFebruary, March, April
Language of flowersBring happiness

What is Adonis amurensis

Birth flowers for Jan 1, Jan 12, Feb 26, Apr 6

January 1st’s birth flower is
Fukujusou (Adonis, scientific name: Adonis ramosa).

“Toward the Light”

🌼 January 1st “Fukujusou”
Aqua(story) and Copilot(illust)

Adonis amurensis『光のほうへ』
“Toward the Light”, Adonis ramosa

A quiet mountain village wrapped in snow.
There lived a boy.
During winter, the village slept under a white blanket.
People stayed indoors, waiting for spring,
spending their days in silence.

But the boy wondered:
“Will spring really come?”

One morning,
he saw a tiny yellow glow in the snow.
As he came closer,
it was a small flower,
pushing aside the snow and blooming straight toward the sky.

“…Aren’t you cold?”
The boy whispered.

The flower swayed in the wind,
as if answering:
“I am cold. But I believe spring will come.”

From that day on, the boy visited the flower every morning.
And little by little, he began to smile.
When spring finally arrived,
and light filled the village,
warmth bloomed in the boy’s heart too.

The flower language of Fukujusou is
“Bringing happiness” and “Eternal joy.”

It is the gaze of a small life
that believes in hope even in the cold.
At the start of a new year,
may this single bloom light up your heart. 💛

“Toward the Light”

Fukujuso, Adonis amurensis (scientific name:Adonis ramosa) is a cold-tolerant perennial plant in the family Ranunculaceae, which is native to East Asia such as Japan.
It is said to be the heralding flower of spring, and its yellow, double-flowered flowers bloom in the mountains and Japanese gardens in early spring. It produces yellow flowers before the leaves appear, so at first only the flowers bloom and then the leaves appear. Its Japanese name is "Fukujuso", which means "lucky" in Japanese, so it is also used for planting at New Year's parties. The flower color is yellow, and other garden varieties include red and green. The flowers are dainty, but the whole plant is poisonous because it is part of the buttercup family.
The language of the flower is "inviting happiness".

Common name: Fukujusou (Adonis)
scientific name:Adonis ramosa,
aka: new year's day grass , Far East Amur adoni,
Place of Origin: Japan and other East Asian countries, Distribution: Hokkaido - Shikoku, Type of Life: Cold-tolerant perennial,
Height: 15-40 cm,
Leaf emergence: post-flowering; leaf shape: two or three oddly-shaped compound leaves; petiolar shape: ovate with deep lobes; petiole: alternate; margin: lobes + serrations; leaf blade: lobes + serrations
Hermaphroditic flowers, diameter: 3-4 cm, color: yellow, rarely red, orange, white, many calyxes, 5-8 sepals, 20-24 petals, Number of stamens: many stamens; multiple stamens; flowering period: February to April
fruit type: emaciated; fruit shape: long oval.
Remarks: Asteraceae with many flowering leaflets, insectivorous flowers, breeding methods: stocking, seeds.