Houttuynia Cordata (Fish mint) 蕺草（ドクダミ）

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

The season of one of my favorite plants has come. This is houttuynia cordata, also known as fish mint or chameleon plant. It's fish mint because the leaf has a fishy taste and chameleon plant because it provides colorful ground cover like a chameleon, though the plants in my neighborhood are all white, green and a little red, which is beautiful but not that colorful...

Fish mint after the rain 雨上がりのドクダミ

Houttuynia cordata 蕺草（読めますか？）

Fish mint bud ドクダミの蕾

Chameleon plant カメレオン色じゃないけど英語は「カメレオン草」

I love the plant for something yellow green protruding from the center of what looks like its flower. The protruding thing is a spike and what look like petals are not petals but bracts. 

As a curious person, I've been wanting to smell the leaves to confirm that they really smell fishy, but fish mints are ground cover and likely to have been showered with dog pee...😂 

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蕺草（ドクダミ）です。大好きです。真ん中の突起（花穂）が白い総苞に映えてとってもかわいいです😉

英語では魚の臭いがするから「fish mint」🐟。いつか嗅いで確認したいと思いつつ、生えている場所が場所だけに、きっと犬のオ〇〇コがかかっていると思い勇気が出ません😂

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