Japanese wisteria

Wisteria floribunda

Flower name
Japanese wisteria
Scientific name
Wisteria floribunda
Alias藤, ノダフジ, Japanese wisteria
Place of originJapan
Place of floweringGarden, Botanical Gardens, Park
Flowering seasonMay
Language of flowersWelcome

What is Japanese wisteria

Birth flowers for Apr 5, May 31

Japanese wisteria or Fuji , scientific name:Wisteria floribunda, is a hardy deciduous vine and shrub of the Fabaceae family native to Japan. Hanging racemes (flower clusters) there in early May, sweet fragrance and blooms. One inflorescence with many small flowers and florets of them has butterfly-shaped legume-. Fuji viewing flower vines crawl dedicated shelf in a lattice made with bamboo in Japan, called Fuji Dana (Wisteria), etc., hannging and dwarf to bonsai. Coloration is pale purple flowers of mauve too, to deep purple or white flowers. (Noda Wisteria) Wisteria told Fuji as well, so representative cultivars and Wisteria in Japan. Right as viewed from above, the Wisteria vine, yamafuji (mountain wisteria) is left-handed. Depending on the region in Japan,however in the Spring Flower Sakura → azalea → Fuji followed bloom. Fuji is very Japanese-style atmosphere, so made the Japanese form of "Fuji Musume". geneus name "Wisteria", American researcher of Fuji is named after. Fuji, also native to Chinese wisteria and American wisteria. Like upside-down with the wisteria flowers, the same family Lupinus there.

"Welcome" is it's flower language. The flower bent down from the wisteria treble is swayed by the wind and it depends on the taste of welcoming the traveler.

Generic name: Japanese wisteria, scientific name:Wisteria floribunda , aka: Fuji, Noda fuji, wisteria, Japanese wisteria, living type: deciduous vines and shrubs, vine length: 3 - 30 m bark: gray, Phyllotaxis: palmately lobed leaf: odd pinnately compound leaves, leaf length: 20-30 cm, small leaves: 13-19, small leaf: oblong, leaf length: 5 -10 cm, inflorescence shape: Butterfly-shaped, inflorescence: raceme, squeezing, inflorescence length: 30-200 cm (9 feet Wisteria), petal size: 2 cm, color: purple, white, mauve, peach, Fragrance: Yes, flowering: early may, fruit types: pods, fruit shape: lanceolate fall, fruit length: 17 cm, seed shape: round, flat