I've been seeing small flowers and thought that they were all lantanas, but I was wrong.....
Look at Photo 1. The white petals with pink veins on them are so pretty! I saw this a few month ago and thought of it as a lantana......
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| 1. Persian/Turkish stonecress モロッコナズナ |
Then a few weeks later, I found the flower of Photo 2, which got me to think that I might be wrong about the name of these flowers because the leaf shape of Photo 1 flower is different from Photo 2 flower's.
It took me several days to find their names. The first one is Persian or Turkish stonecress or "Moroccan shepherd's purse" in Japanese while Photo 2 flower is trailing lantana or weeping lantana. The clusters of these tiny flowers is both 3 to 5 cm in diameter, a little bigger than a table tennis ball, but stonecress' leaf is like chrysanthemum's while lantana's is ovate.
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| 2. Trailing lantana / weeping lantana コバノランタナ（西洋山丹花） |
Trailing lantana has two Japanese names. One is "Western mountain red flower" and the other "small leaf lantana" as its leaves are smaller than those of West Indian lantana, whose Japanese name is just "lantana."
Was it easy? Okay, so how about the next one? Can you tell what flowers they are (Photo 3 and Photo 4)?
These are neither stonecresses nor lantanas, but garden verbenas. A garden verbena flower is as round and small as Persian/Turkish stonecress and trailing lantana, but is different in the shape and number of petals.
Garden verbena is called "beautiful woman cherry" or "flower temari ball" in Japanese. Temari balls are traditional Japanese thread balls used in traditional Japanese handball games long time ago. This lovely name "flower temari ball" suits not only garden verbena but stonecress and lantana, doesn't it?
The last one (below; Photo 5) is fairly primrose and it's pretty, too. It's called "make-up cherry" in Japan because its sepals and the back of leaves are white as if they were wearing make-up.
It made me feel so much better now 😄 knowing how to differentiate these tiny but pretty flowers (although I'm still not sure that I understand correctly....😱)!
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| 3. Pink garden verbena 美女桜 |
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| 4. Garden verbena is "beautiful woman cherry" in Japanese 美女桜、花手毬 |
These are neither stonecresses nor lantanas, but garden verbenas. A garden verbena flower is as round and small as Persian/Turkish stonecress and trailing lantana, but is different in the shape and number of petals.
Garden verbena is called "beautiful woman cherry" or "flower temari ball" in Japanese. Temari balls are traditional Japanese thread balls used in traditional Japanese handball games long time ago. This lovely name "flower temari ball" suits not only garden verbena but stonecress and lantana, doesn't it?
The last one (below; Photo 5) is fairly primrose and it's pretty, too. It's called "make-up cherry" in Japan because its sepals and the back of leaves are white as if they were wearing make-up.
It made me feel so much better now 😄 knowing how to differentiate these tiny but pretty flowers (although I'm still not sure that I understand correctly....😱)!
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| 5. Fairly primrose's Japanese name is "make-up cherry" プリムラ・マライコイデスの和名は「化粧桜」 |
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上から、
1. モロッコナズナ Persian / Turkish stonecress
2. 小葉のランタナ trailing lantana / weeping lantana
3. ピンクのバーベナ / 美女桜 / 花手毬 garden verbena
4. 白のバーベナ / 美女桜 / 花手毬 garden verbena
5. プリムラマラコイデス / 化粧桜 fairly primrose
です。最近見かけたものばかりです。どれもちっちゃい花の塊（３～５センチくらい）で最初は全部ランタナだと思っていたのですが、どうも違うみたいなので調べてみたところ、似たような花がたくさんあることが分かりました～。スッキリ♬😄（でもやっぱりまだ自信ありません｡｡｡😱）
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上から、
2. 小葉のランタナ trailing lantana / weeping lantana
3. ピンクのバーベナ / 美女桜 / 花手毬 garden verbena
4. 白のバーベナ / 美女桜 / 花手毬 garden verbena
5. プリムラマラコイデス / 化粧桜 fairly primrose
です。最近見かけたものばかりです。どれもちっちゃい花の塊（３～５センチくらい）で最初は全部ランタナだと思っていたのですが、どうも違うみたいなので調べてみたところ、似たような花がたくさんあることが分かりました～。スッキリ♬😄（でもやっぱりまだ自信ありません｡｡｡😱）
(Google アカウントを持ってない方は、コメント記入後に「Google アカウント」をクリックし、「匿名」か「名前/URL」を選択してからご記入ください！)
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