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Flora

I fell in love with flora of all types, especially ferns. Loved the sparse structure and repetition of shape - almost fractal. 

                                                                                                                     - Jack Dorsey

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Aucuba (Laurel) Aucuba japonica
アオキ

Plant Habit: Shrub

Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: Mesic Dry Mesic Dry

Propagation: Seeds: Self-fertile

Brachythecium moss Brachythecium rutabulum

Plant Habit: Moss

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Chinese Wisteria Wisteria Sinensis
藤の木

Plant Habit: Shrub, Vine

Propagation: Stolons and runners

Water Preferences: Mesic

Pollinators: Various insects

Chinese windmill palm
Trachycarpus fortunei
トウジュロ

Plant Habit: Tree
Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic

Propagation: Seeds: Self-fertile

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Fern
Polystichum tsus-simense
ヒメカナワラビ

Plant Habit: Fern
Life cycle: Perennial

Fish Mint
Houttuynia cordata
ドクダミ

Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: In Water, Wet, Wet Mesic, Mesic

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Giant butterbur
Petasites japonicus
フキ

Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: Wet Mesic, Mesic

Arisaema limbatum
ミミガタテンナンショウ

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Simon Bamboo Pleioblastus simonii
メダケ

Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like

Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic

Pollinators: Wind

Japanese emperor oak Quercus dentata

Plant Habit: Tree
Water Preferences: Mesic

Pollinators: Wind

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Hinoki cypress Chamaecyparis obtusa
ヒノキ

Plant Habit: Evergreen Tree

Lily Turf
Liriope muscari
ヤブラン

Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like
Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: Mesic, Dry Mesic, Dry

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Simon Bamboo Pleioblastus simonii
メダケ

Plant Habit: Grass/Grass-like

Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic

Pollinators: Wind

Philadelphia fleabane Erigeron philadelphicus
ハルジオン

Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual

Water Preferences: Mesic
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies, Bees

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Small-leaved plantain lily  hosta sieboldii 
コバギボウシ

Butterfly flower
Schizanthus
シャガ 

Life cycle: Perennial

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Common ivy 
hedera helix
セイヨウヅタ

Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial

Water Preferences: Mesic
 

Japanese cherry

Prunus serrulata

Plant Habit: Tree

Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic

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Japanese Chestnut Castanea crenata

Plant Habit: Tree

Life cycle: Perennial
Water Preferences: Mesic

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