Smiling Monkey Forest Tree (Magnolia Maudiae) ミヤマガンショウ（深山含笑）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

I've been busy so haven't been able to take a morning walk for the last week. And this morning, when going through a nearby park for the first time in a week, I felt something wrong. The white camellia sasanqua tree I wrote about last month seemed to have moved about one meter to the left??? I stared at the tree, ten meters away from the tree, approaching it, and finding it not a camellia tree but a smiling monkey forest tree (Magnolia maudiae)! The white camellia tree, which had many white blooms until a week ago, has lost all of them and instead the smiling monkey forest tree, left next to the camellia tree, has bloomed over the last week! 

I did research about why the magnolia is called "smiling monkey forest tree" but couldn't find any information. Interestingly, its Japanese name means "smiling flowers in deep mountains." Maybe everyone seeing the flower is reminded of someone's or monkeys' smiling face. 

2025/3/7

2025/3/7

2025/3/7

2025/3/7

2025/3/7

 

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ここ1週間忙しくて朝の散歩ができず、今朝1週間ぶりにいつもの公園を歩いていたらあれ？なんかおかしい。去年12月に記事を書いた山茶花の木が1メートルほど左に動いた？？？目を凝らしながら近づいたら、1週間前までたくさん花をつけていた山茶花の木は花を落とし、すぐ左のミヤマガンショウ（深山含笑）がたくさん花をつけていました。

名前が変わっているので由来を調べたら、深い山で膨らんだつぼみが微笑みをたたえているかのようなので深山含笑。ちなみに英語名は smiling monkey forest tree。人かサルかはさておき、笑い顔に見えるのは万国共通のようです😊。

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