英語の後に日本語が続きます。
The woodland elaeocarpus (Elaeocarpus sylvestris) is native to eastern Asia and can be found across Japan. What I like best about the tree is its spin mop-like flowers, which bloom from June to August in Japan. (Scroll down!)
The tree is named "horuto no ki" in Japanese, which translates into "Portugal tree," after an innocent mistake made by Gennai Hiraga (1728 - 1780), a famous Japanese pharmacologist, student of Rangaku (i.e., western learning), physician, author, painter, and inventor (in short, a genius!) in the Edo period (1603-1858). He mistook this tree for an olive tree, which was then called "Portugal tree." Even Homer sometimes nods. Gennai isn't an exception😉!
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胆八樹（ホルトノキ）です。東アジア原産。日本でもあちこちに植えられています。その魅力は何と言ってもモップみたいな花です。色は地味だけどかわいいでしょ。
名前の由来は、平賀源内がこの木を当時「ポルトガルの木」と呼ばれていたオリーブの木と間違ってしまい、「ポルトガルの木」→「ホルトノキ」となったため。弘法も筆の誤り。源内も例外ではないようです😉
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