Details for: WLP 2638, Tsuga diversifolia (Maxim.) Mast., PCC18-HON-020

Summary Data

Taxonomy:

Tsuga diversifolia (Maxim.) Mast.

Top Name:

PCC18-HON-020

Origin:

Collected – Honshu, Japan

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

15 Dec 2018

Form Received:

Seed

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Core Passport Data

Taxonomy:

Tsuga diversifolia (Maxim.) Mast.

Top Name:

PCC18-HON-020

Origin:

Collected – Honshu, Japan

Maintained:

National Arboretum

Received by NPGS:

15 Dec 2018

Form Received:

Seed

Source History

Collected

15 September 2018.
Honshu, Japan
Locality: Tochigi Prefecture, Nikko City; ; Nikko (Okunikko) Forest, Nikko National Park - Utsunomiya University Forest.
Coordinates: 36.7989, 139.4818 (Map it)
Elevation: 1600m.
Environment description: Slope below cliff and forestry road. Soil consists of organic duff over rockier soil.
Associated species: Abies homolepis:Acer japonicum:Acer rufinerve:Acer shirasawanum:Betula ermanii:Cercidiphyllum japonicum:Cercidiphyllum magnificum:Fagus crenata:Larix kaempferi:Rhododendron wadanum:Sorbus japonica var. calocarpa:Weigela decora
Aspect: ; Slope: 15 Degrees; Soil Texture:
Comment: Large conifer, missing central leader but with a prominent side branch that asserted itself to become upright. Height 15 m; DBH 75 cm. Bark furrowed, blackish brown. Needles arising from all sides but mostly on top of branch, giving a two-ranked appearance; each up to 1 cm long and notched at the apex. Green, ovoid cones, 2 cm long and 1 cm wide.
Collector(s):

Accession Names and Identifiers

PCC18-HON-020

Type: Collector identifier

NA 85437

Type: Site identifier

Group: NA

U.S. National Arboretum

Narrative

Seed collected from one plant; three herbarium vouchers collected; photographed.

Tsuga diversifolia (Maxim.) Mast.

Genus:

Tsuga

Family:

Pinaceae

Nomen number:

40702

Place of publication:

J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 18:514. 1881

Verified:

04/26/1996 by ARS Systematic Botanists.

Other conspecific taxa

Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations

Basionym
Abies diversifolia Maxim.

Common names

Language	Name	seq	Citation
English	Japanese hemlock	1	Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. A concise dictionary of plants cultivated in the United States and Canada
English	North Japanese hemlock	1	Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
Japanese Rōmaji	kome-tsuga	2	Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993-. Flora of Japan.
Swedish	japansk hemlock	2	Aldén, B., S. Ryman, & M. Hjertson. 2012. Svensk Kulturväxtdatabas, SKUD (Swedish Cultivated and Utility Plants Database; online resource)

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