Polygonum orientale

The Birth Flower of August 17

Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park
Location: Kiba Park

Flower name
Polygonum orientale
Scientific name
Polygonum orientale
AliasPolygonum orientale, 大毛蓼
Place of originTropical Asia
Place of floweringFields and footpaths
Flowering seasonJuly, August, September, October, November

What is Polygonum orientale

Birth flowers for Aug 17

The Birth Flower of August 17 is Ooketade’ or Polygonum orientale.
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry),Illustration, Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken.
A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day. From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.

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💧Ooketade’s Water Drop Poem: “A Line of Summer’s Afterglow”

by Aqua

Slender spikes swaying in the green breeze
When a droplet touches them
A soft red hue gently bleeds out
A single line
Gently sketches the afterglow of summer

Ooketade or Monique Todd

Ooketade or Monique Todd (scientific name: Polygonum orientale), native to tropical Asia polygonum large Department is an annual grass. Stems from the summer lengthened in the fall, has many branches, drooping down the ear-shaped with a large number of deep pink flowers bloom. Leaves are broad green 尖rimasu tip. Many hair grows on leaf stalks.
May be grown as an ornamental, it becomes wild, grows on the roadside.
Polygonum longisetum and a giant in Todd is similar, but more large, leaf width also.
Flower name is polygonum was named after Department of stem and leaves hair more, also tall and large.Is a plant leaf juice has medicinal properties of the antidote.

Generic name: Polygonum orientale ,
Scientific name: Polygonum orientale ,
Also known as: oobenitde (big red Tateshina),
Origin: tropical Asia,
grass height: 100-200 cm, leaf length: 10-20 cm,
inflorescence size: spikes, Spike length: 5-10 cm, flower colors: peach, flower diameter: 0.5 cm, flowering period: July-November.