Paper Mulberry (Broussonetia Papyrifera) カジノキ（梶の木）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I was photographing fruits on a Japanese dogwood tree and then these strange shaped leaves under the tree caught my eye. These are leaves of paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera). The leaves are lobed with leaf margins sharply toothed, but they can be variable, like unlobed, round or heart-shaped, which is like Dendropanax trifidus leaves, which change from a lobed to an ovate shape.

Paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera)　カジノキ（梶の木）

Colorful Bitter Gourd カラフルゴーヤ

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It's not a colorful doughnut. It's not a gigantic, colorful snail, either. It's a ripe bitter gourd! Bitter gourds mostly grow like the one in the third photo but they are all different like we are. The last photo is of a home bitter gourd for ants! 

A colorful bitter gourd　カラフルなゴーヤ

A home for ants　アリの家？

Female Scarlet Skimmer (Crocothemis Servilia) ショウジョウトンボ（猩々蜻蛉）

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This is a female scarlet skimmer (ruddy marsh skimmer or Crocothemis servilia), or so I believe. In contrast to its name, the dragonfly is not scarlet because it's female. Only male scarlet skimmers are scarlet and each has a territory around a pond. I should find a pond first to see a really "scarlet" scarlet skimmer.  

A female scarlet skimmer　ショウジョウトンボの雌

Schoenoplectiella Triangulatus Roxb. カンガレイ（寒枯藺）

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This is a Schoenoplectiella triangulatus Roxb. The plant is known to have stems of which the cross-section is triangular. I wanted to see the cross section but I couldn't break the stem.

Inflorescence　花序

Sawfly ハバチ（羽蜂）

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The orange, blue, and pink colors (2nd photo) and then the small but bright orange and black bug on a green leaf caught my eye. 

Sawfly　ハバチ（羽蜂）

Waterleaf (Talinum Fruticosum) and a Pale Grass Blue ハゼラン（爆蘭）とヤマトシジミ（大和小灰蝶）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I had to go there three times to take these photos yesterday. First, at 5 a.m. while on an early morning walk. Second, at 9 a.m. before going to a nearby library. Then, at 3 p.m. because at 5 a.m. and 9 a.m., the flowers were closed as shown in the last photo and as suggested by one of its Japanese names "sanjiso," meaning "3 o'clock plant," which I didn't know at these times. They are waterleaves (Talinum fruticosum). I walk by them almost every morning but didn't know until the day before when happening to walk by them at around 3 p.m. While I was photographing the waterleaf, a pale grass blue came to play with me, flying from one flower to another.  

2024/9/9

Yellow Damselfly (Ceriagrion Melanurum) キイトトンボ（黄糸蜻蛉）

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It resembles an Asian bluetail (Ischnura asiatica) but the body color is different. The Asian bluetail is blue while this one is yellow green. This is a yellow damselfly (Ceriagrion melanurum). Asian bluetails and yellow damselflies are both difficult to find because they're so thin. While blinking after taking these photos, I lost sight of it.

Yellow damselfly (Ceriagrion melanurum)　キイトトンボ（黄糸蜻蛉）