This page is a collection of links to information on native plants as well as naturalized plants of Japan.
- History of the Clematis
- Plant paradise: History of the Japanese Morning Glory
- Plant paradise: Horsetails were humongous in prehistoric times!
- Plant paradise: Hosta, a peacock of a plant
- Plant paradise: How grows your hagi?
- Plant paradise: Hyacinth orchid (Shiran)
- Plant paradise: Hydrangeas bloom ahead of a humid summer
- Plant paradise: Hyoutangumi
- Plant paradise: Iridescent irises of April
- Plant paradise: Irises in May
- Plant paradise: Jack and the kudzu beanstalk
- Plant paradise: Japan’s mountain maples
- Plant paradise: Japanese anise (shikimi)
- Plant paradise: Japanese clematis (a.k.a Sweet Autumn Clematis)
- Plant paradise: Japanese hawthorn (sharinbai)
- Plant paradise: Japanese lanterns (hozuki)
- Plant paradise: Japanese Photinia plants make good hedges
- Plant paradise: Japanese Pieris
- Plant paradise: Japanese Prickly ash (sansho)
- Plant paradise: Japanese pumpkins
- Plant paradise: Japanese red rose (No-ibara)
- Plant paradise: June’s Sweet Briar Rose (hamanasu)
- Plant paradise: Kanto tanpopo vs Seiyo tanpopo
- Plant paradise: Kawarazuzakura kicks in the spring season
- Plant paradise: Kerria japonica (yamabuki) gold is the colour of gold and bribes
- Plant paradise: Korean morning glory (chosen asagao)
- Plant paradise: Kunugi acorns
- Plant paradise: Kurume tsutsuji
- Plant paradise: Legend of the “heron” flower (sagisou)
- Plant paradise: Lilies of Japan
- Plant paradise: Lily of the Valley (Suzuran)
- Plant paradise: Lizard’s tail (dokudami)
- Plant paradise: Looking at Liriope (yabura)
- Plant paradise: Magnificent magnolias of Japan
- Plant paradise: Mahonia barberries (hiragi-nanten)
- Plant paradise: Mansaku of March (Witchhazel)
- Plant paradise: March’s Japanese Mahonia (hiragi-nanten)
- Plant paradise: Merry Malva
- Plant paradise: Moonseed (tsuzurafuji)
- Plant paradise: Mountain mulberry has a prehistoric connection with man
- Plant paradise: Mums of the Land of the Chrysanthemum
- Plant paradise: Murasaki Shikibu shrub covered in mauve berries
- Plant paradise: Murasaki Shikibu’s Beauty Berries
- Plant paradise: Narcissus naturalized in Japan 1,000 years ago
- Plant paradise: native alpine heathers
- Plant paradise: Native yellow roses
- Plant paradise: Nippon Lily
- Plant paradise: Nuphar japonicum (kouhone)
- Plant paradise: On the trail of the trumpet creeper
- Plant paradise: Oriental bittersweet
- Plant paradise: Oriental bittersweet (tsurumodoki)
- Plant paradise: Oriental tulip (Amana)
- Plant paradise: Ornamental peach (Hana-momo)
- Plant paradise: Ornery oxalis (hanakatabami)
- Plant paradise: Osmanthus or Fragrant Olive (kinmokusei)
- Plant paradise: Oy! it’s an Oleander (kyouchikutou)
- Plant paradise: Paederia scandens (hekusougazura)
- Plant paradise: Painted peas
- Plant paradise: Paradise lily (higanbana)
- Plant paradise: Peace lily is your perfect air-pollution cleaner
- Plant paradise: Peony – The Flower Fairy
- Plant paradise: Persimmon – pride of October
- Plant paradise: Pieris japonica
- Plant paradise: Pink polygonatum
- Plant paradise: Plant Chinese redbuds for striking colour
- Plant paradise: Plants and Flowers of Hakone
- Plant paradise: Plum power!
- Plant paradise: Pomegranate (zakuro) – golden fruit for the gods
- Plant paradise: popular pyracantha
- Plant paradise: Porcelain berries
- Plant paradise: Pretty weed – Persicaria sp.
- Plant paradise: Purple coral pea (a.k.a. hardenbergia)
- Plant paradise: Purple rape blossoms (hanadaikon) pepper the countryside in spring
- Plant paradise: Pussy willows don’t wilt easily
- Plant paradise: Pussywillow trees are natives of northern Japan
- Plant paradise: Rape blossoms (nanohana)in a row
- Plant paradise: Rape blossoms to power cars
- Plant paradise: Red & White hibiscus syriacus (mukuge)
- Plant paradise: Red rhododendron
- Plant paradise: Right up your allium alley
- Plant paradise: Robust robai (wintersweet)
- Plant paradise: Safflower’s ancient uses for lipsticks and dyes
- Plant paradise: Sakura – soul of the samurai
- Plant paradise: Sakura-so (primula japonica) is not a so-so plant
- Plant paradise: Satsuki Splendour
- Plant paradise: Scabiosa (matsumushi-so) – the Lady’s Cushion
- Plant paradise: Scouting for scutellaria
- Plant paradise: Scutellaria var. japonica (tatsunamisou)
- Plant paradise: Secret blooms of the Sharinbai – the Yeddo hawthorn
- Plant paradise: Seemania sylvatica
- Plant paradise: Sesame indicum by the Sagami River
- Plant paradise: Shepherd’s purse (nazuna) in spring
- Plant paradise: Shibateranthis pinnatifida (setsubunso)
- Plant paradise: Shichimi pepper
- Plant paradise: Siebold’s primrose (sakura-sou)
- Plant paradise: Snake gourd or crow’s gourd (karasu-uri)
- Plant paradise: Snowberries
- Plant paradise: Snowflakes in spring
- Plant paradise: Soaring suzuki pampas grasses
- Plant paradise: Solidago sky
- Plant paradise: Solomon’s Seal (naruko-uri)
- Plant paradise: Somei-yoshino cherry blossom in bloom
- Plant paradise: Spiderwort
- Plant paradise: Spike winterhazel (tosa mizuki)
- Plant paradise: Spindle tree
- Plant paradise: Spirae japonica (shimotsuke) in season
- Plant paradise: Spit at the water lotus and watch nanotechnology at work
- Plant paradise: Sponge gourds often grown on schoolgrounds (hechima)
- Plant paradise: Sprays of spirae thunbergii (yukiyanagi) splendour
- Plant paradise: Spring’s Shepherd’s Purse
- Plant paradise: St. John’s Wort
- Plant paradise: Star Rush
- Plant paradise: Stewartia – sacred flower
- Plant paradise: Stewartia tree’s sacred flower blooms for 1 day
- Plant paradise: Sumire violets – secret of the woods
- Plant paradise: Sunflower
- Plant paradise: Sunflower-spotting
- Plant paradise: Sunny sedum
- Plant paradise: Susuki vs. Ogi miscanthus – do you know your grasses?
- Plant paradise: Swamp rose mallow (fuyo)
- Plant paradise: Take in the Tickseed (a.k.a. coreopsis)
- Plant paradise: Tassel tapestry
- Plant paradise: Tateyama thistle and other common wayside thistles
- Plant paradise: The “jade plant” – the “Happiness Tree”
- Plant paradise: The Balloon Lantern (fusentowata)
- Plant paradise: The Camellia – a rose without thorns
- Plant paradise: The charm of the coralberry (manryo)
- Plant paradise: The cotton plant
- Plant paradise: The fire heath will resprout after a fire
- Plant paradise: The good-for-you goya
- Plant paradise: The history of lilies
- Plant paradise: The horse chestnut hails the onset of summer
- Plant paradise: The hype over hydrangeas
- Plant paradise: The Japanese Spurge (fukkiso)
- Plant paradise: The Lilac Tree
- Plant paradise: The Manukah Tea Tree
- Plant paradise: The Nippon lily (Rhodea japonica) says “all is well”
- Plant paradise: The origin of daylilies
- Plant paradise: The passionflower in passing
- Plant paradise: The Peruvian lily isn’t Peruvian, and the Cuban lily isn’t Cuban
- Plant paradise: The pigeonberry (jyuzusango)
- Plant paradise: The poisonous American pokeweed can be eaten cooked
- Plant paradise: The quiet Calanthe orchid (ebine)
- Plant paradise: The screw flower (nejibana)
- Plant paradise: The seven herbs of spring
- Plant paradise: The stinky tree “kusagi” / Clerodendoron trichotomum
- Plant paradise: The tale behind discovery of the metasequoia tree
- Plant paradise: The tropical hibiscus (haibisukasu)
- Plant paradise: The yama-boshi dogwood “flower” is not a flower
- Plant paradise: They danced around Sakaki tree
- Plant paradise: tradescantia (murasaki-tsuyukasa)
- Plant paradise: Traditional herbs of spring
- Plant paradise: Tree ivy (ki-zuta)
- Plant Paradise: Tricyrtis – a Tale of the Hairy Toad
- Plant paradise: True lilies and day lilies
- Plant paradise: Two-toned cotton mallow (fuyo)
- Plant paradise: Under the Zelkova tree
- Plant paradise: Veronica persica is a little flower called Big Dog’s testacles!
- Plant paradise: Vibrant viburnum
- Plant paradise: Viburnum vigour in the gamazumi
- Plant paradise: Vinca vine are popular ground cover
- Plant paradise: Violet cress
- Plant paradise: Walnuts are for wellness (kurumi)
- Plant paradise: Warm shades of calendula for a cold winter
- Plant paradise: Watching water lilies bloom
- Plant paradise: Watercress
- Plant paradise: Weep for one of these weeping plums (shidareume)
- Plant paradise: Weigela
- Plant paradise: White briar rose (i-bara)
- Plant paradise: Wild aster (nokongiku)
- Plant paradise: Wild bean (karasu-no-endo)
- Plant paradise: Wild Chive (no-biru)
- Plant paradise: Wildflowers: Houstonia caerulea ヒナソウ（雛草）
- Plant paradise: Windflower (the Japanese Anemone)
- Plant paradise: Windflower signals spring
- Plant paradise: Winter hazel NOT wintersweet
- Plant paradise: Wintersweet (robai)
- Plant paradise: Wisteria week
- Plant paradise: Wolfberry (kuko)
- Plant paradise: Wonderful winter clematis
- Plant paradise: Wood gentians (fude-rintou)
- Plant paradise: Yae-zakura or double cherry blossoms are a glorious sight
- Plant paradise: Yellow wildflowers
- Plant paradise: Yellow yuzu
- Plant Paradise: Yurizuha – the Evergreen Daphne
- Plant paradise: Zephyranthe primulina (tamasudare)
- Plants paradise: Satsuki azaleas signal onset of summer
NATURE IN JAPAN 