White Platycodon Grandiflorus (Balloon Flower) 白桔梗（シロキキョウ）

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This is a white balloon flower (Platycodon grandiflorus). I saw purple ones last month and double-flowered ones a few days ago. I didn't know the plant produces white flowers. I wanted to photograph its balloon shaped white buds but couldn't find one.  

White balloon flower　白桔梗

Double-Flowered Balloon Flower (Platycodon Grandiflorus) 八重桔梗（ヤエキキョウ）

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These are double-flowered balloon flowers (Platycodon grandiflorus). I wrote about single-flowered balloon flowers last month. Just the single or double difference makes them completely different flowers.   

Double-flowered balloon flower　八重桔梗

Platycodon grandiflorus　ヤエキキョウ

Platycodon Grandiflorus (Balloon Flower) 桔梗（キキョウ）

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This is a balloon flower (Platycodon grandifloru). The purple is so beautiful! The name "balloon flower" is after the balloon-shaped flower buds (2nd photo). 

I wrote about clasping Venus' looking-glass (Triodanis perfoliata) last month and its Japanese name is "small platycodon" because of their similar flower shapes and colors (but not the size).  

Platycodon grandiflorus　桔梗

A balloon shaped bud of a balloon flower　風船みたいなツボミ

Balloon, Balloon🎈!! Cardiospermum Halicacabum & Platycodon Grandiflorus 風船かずら 🎈 桔梗

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These are balloon vine or love in a puff (cardiospermum halicacabum) and balloon flower or Chinese bellflower (platycodon grandiflorus). I saw them at Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden and in my neighborhood in Tokyo.

Cardiospermum halicacabum 風船かずら

Balloon Flower Was Morning Glory in Japan 原始、桔梗は朝顔だった

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These are balloon flowers blooming in my neighborhood.

Deep purple 桔梗

I first found deep purple balloon flowers and a few weeks later white and pale purple ones. They are pretty in any color.

Ballooned-shaped bud つぼみがバルーン

Pale purple 薄紫

Surprisingly, balloon flower was called "morning glory" during the Manyo period (from the mid-7th to the mid-8th century) in Japan because then beautiful flowers blooming in the morning were all called morning glory. Do you find it inclusive or sloppy?

This reminded me of another inclusiveness or sloppiness issue about the colors of Japan, specifically, blue and green. If you are interested, read "Goryeo Celadon and Colors of Japan."

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桔梗です。最初に濃い紫を見つけ、２週間ぐらいして白と薄紫を見つけました。

英語では蕾がバルーン型だから「balloon flower」というそうです。可愛い名前です。

ところで桔梗、万葉の時代は朝顔と呼ばれていたとのこと。朝に咲く美しい花は全て「朝顔」だったからだそうです。おおらかと見るか、いい加減と見るか｡｡｡ 私は前者かな🙇

ちなみに万葉の時代、「緑」は「青」でした。詳しくお知りになりたい方は「Goryeo Celadon and Colors of Japan 高麗青磁は青？緑？」もどうぞ！！

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