Botany

Disporum viridescens

Disporum viridescens is a species of flowering plant in the family Colchicaceae. Like other species in the genus, it grows from a rhizome. The plant is 30 to 80 cm (12 to 31 in), with a stem that may branch. The leaves are more-or-less ovate in shape with a very short petiole (stalk). One or two open flowers are borne at the ends of stems; they have greenish white tepals which are 1.5 to 2 cm (0.59 to 0.79 in) long. Flowering is in late spring to early summer (May to June in the northern hemisphere). Black berries around 1 cm (0.39 in) in diameter appear a few months later. Plants grow in woodland or on grassy slopes at altitudes up to 600 m (2,000 ft) in northeastern China, eastern Russia, Japan, and Korea.

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See also

• ▸Eriocapitella hupehensis
• ▸Japan–Portugal relations
• ▸Castilleja

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