Japanese Buttercup

Ranunculus japonicus

February 18th's birth flower

Location: Aqua
Location: Illust:Yuki @Kagiken (Science&Technology Inst.co.,Tokyo )
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Flower name
Japanese Buttercup
Scientific name
Ranunculus japonicus
Alias馬の足形, Japanese Buttercup, 金鳳花, ウマノアシガタ
Place of originHigh mountain of Chubu from Hokkaido in Japan
Place of floweringFields and footpaths
Flowering seasonApril, May, June

What is Japanese Buttercup

Birth flowers for Feb 18

A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day.
From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.

February 18th's birth flower: kinpouge(ranunculus-japonicus)
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry, Illustration), Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken

ranunculus-japonicus , Image provided by Aqua
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem. Aqua is a water spirit.

💧Kinpige's Dewdrop Poem: “Footsteps of Spring”

by Aqua

Even if no one notices,
I will bloom.

Catching a single drop of light
on the tip of a leaf,

I gently tell the still-sleeping forest
that spring has come.

It is like
a greeting,
like a prayer,
a tiny yellow lamp.

In the stillness,
spring awakens.

💧Afterword
I hope this poem, along with the soft light of the illustration,
brings the feel of spring to your heart💛🌿

Japanese Buttercup or Kinpouge

Japanese Buttercup or Kinpouge(scientific name:Ranunculus japonicus) is a perennial of the family Ranunculaceae in the Japanese and Chinese origin.
It is a wild grass that grows in the fields and mountains from Hokkaido to Okinawa of Japan .
In the spring, yellow flowers are blooming in the inflorescence stretching from the flower stem. Unfortunately it is a poisonous plant.

Common name:Japanese Buttercup ,
scientific name: Ranunculus japonicus,
aka: Kinpouge or Umanoahigata,
distribution: Hokkaido ~ Okinawa of Japan, Environment : Field and mountainous area,
life type: perennial plant,
plant height: 30 to 50 cm, root foliage: palm shape,
leaf shape: narrow ellipse shape, leaf margin: saw tooth presence, leaf order: tooth crest,
radish symmetry flower, bisexual flower, liberation Flower color: yellow, flower diameter: 1.5 cm, petal number: 5, flowering period: April to June,
fruit type: gathering fruit, fruit shape: spherical shape,
NOTE: poisonous plant.

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