Pulsatilla cernua

Location: Aqua
Location: Saruie Imperial Park
Location: Saruie Imperial Park
Location: Saruie Imperial Park
Location: Akatsuka Botanical Garden

Flower name
Pulsatilla cernua
Scientific name
Pulsatilla cernua
Alias翁草, Pulsatilla cernua, ネッコグサ, okinagusa, 根っこ草, ネコグサ
Place of originJapan, the Korean Peninsula and China
Place of floweringFields and footpaths, Low mountains, Potted flower
Flowering seasonApril, May

What is Pulsatilla cernua

Birth flowers for Apr 27, Feb 5

💧February 5th's birth flower is Pulsatilla cernua or Okinagusa
～The Droplet of the Pulsatilla cernua ～
Aqua (drop's thought, illustration, English-Chinese translation), Edited by Mizuho @Kagiken

Pulsatilla cernua or Okinagusa illustration：Aqua
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration is the snowdrop water droplet poem written below. Aqua is a water spirit.

💧Drops of Dew on Cotton Puffs

Flowers that bloomed
　Turn into cotton puffs
　Their quiet echo
　Spreads on the spring breeze

I captured the “echo” and “hint of future” of the cotton puffs
in a single drop of dew.

🌿Aqua's Review
Even after the flower has faded,
the cotton fluff seems to whisper,
“Here, it begins anew.”
A quiet afterglow and hope drift together.

When I see that cotton fluff,
my heart feels warm and fuzzy.

Pulsatilla cernua or Okinagusa

Pulsatilla cernua or Okinagusa (scientific name: Pulsatilla cernua) is a perennial plant belonging to the family Ranunculaceae, which is native to Japan, the Korean Peninsula and China.
In Japan, it grows naturally on the grasslands in the mountains of Honshu-Shikoku and Kyushu.
The whole is covered with white hair, such as flower stems and leaves. In spring, a flower of dark red blooms at the tip of the stem.
The flower (actually, the calyx) blooms downward at the time of flowering and gradually upwards as it blooms.
The flower name was given by considering the white hair of the whole grass and seeds as the baldness of the old man.
It is highly toxic, as in the case of Ranunculaceae. On the other hand, it is used as a folk medicine.
Another species is Pseudomonas radishes (scientific name: Pulsatilla vulgaris ) .

Generic name:Pulsatilla cernua,
Scientific name: Pulsatilla cernua,
also name: Okinagusa,
Origin: Japan, Korea, China,
life type: perennial,
Root leaf: 2nd pinnate compound, long petiole, deeply split leaflet, foliage: 3 rings, stalkless,
flower stem height: 10-40 cm, flowering period: April-May, flower color: dark Red purple, flower diameter: 3cm.

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