Yaguruma-sou

Rodgersia podophylla

💧April 11th's Birth Flower:

Location: Copilot
Location: Tokyo Metropolitan Jindai Botanical Park
Location: Nikko Botanical Garden
Location: Nikko Botanical Garden
Location: Nikko Botanical Garden
Location: Hakobe Botanical Garden

Flower name
Yaguruma-sou
Scientific name
Rodgersia podophylla
Alias矢車草
Place of originJapan and the Korean peninsula
Place of floweringLow mountains
Flowering seasonMay, June, July
Language of flowersClean

What is Yaguruma-sou

Birth flowers for Apr 11

💧April 11th's Birth Flower: Yaguruma-sou(Rodgersia podophylla）
Aqua (story), Copilot(illustration), and English-Chinese translation, Edited by Mizuho @Kagiken

Yaguruma-sou（Rodgersia podophylla）
Yaguruma-sou(Rodgersia podophylla), llustration by Copilot
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit.

Yaguruma-sou's Water Drop's Poem “At the Whim of the Wind”
by Aqua

Every time the wind blows,
I spin round and round,
As if I were
answering the sky.

It doesn't have to be straight;
It's okay to take a detour.
At the whim of the wind,
I bloom.

Because I love the wind,
I'm looking up at the sky
again today.

Aqua’s Afterword
Inspired by the cornflower’s light petals
**and the way it sways in the wind,
I chose “a free spirit” and “the beauty of detours” as my themes!!**🌾💧

Yaguruma-sou

Yaguruma-sou (scientific name: Rodgersia podophylla) is native to Japan and the Korean Peninsula, and is a perennial grass of the family Saxifragaceae.
It grows naturally in the shade of mountain etc., stretches the rhizome and forms a community.
Spread the large five leaflets radially. In the early summer, put out long flower stems from the center of the leaves and dense white flowers in a conical inflorescence extending from the tip. Florets do not have petals and are composed of numerous calyxes and stamens.
Leaves stand out more than flowers, and the origin of the name is that the leaf shape resembles an arrowhead.
Yaguruma-giku (scientific name: Centaurea cyanus) of another genus is sometimes called Yaguruma-sou.

common name: Yaguruma-sou,
Scientific name: Rodgersia podophylla,
Distribution: Hokkaido to Honshu, Japan, Korea Peninsula, Environment: Fertility of deep mountains,
life style : Perennial plant,
plant height: 1 m,
leaf shape: alternate, leaf shape: palm-shaped feathered double leaf, root length: 40 cm, leaf margin of leaf: serrated,
inflorescence form: conical inflorescence, flower stem length: 80 to 100 cm, petal: Flower color: white, small flower diameter (actually calyx): 0.3 cm, stamens: large, number of flower columns: 2, flowering period: May to July,
fruit type: fruit shape, fruit shape: narrow ovate, fruit length: 0.5 cm.