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Wisteria floribunda, common name Japanese wisteria (藤, fuji), is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae, native to Japan. [1] (Wisteriopsis japonica, synonym Wisteria japonica, is a different species.) Growing to 9 m (30 ft), Wisteria floribunda is a woody, deciduous twining climber. It was first brought from Japan to the United ...
Hanakotoba (花言葉) is the Japanese form of the language of flowers. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words. The language was meant to convey emotion and communicate directly to the recipient or viewer without needing the use of words.
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Chinese wisteria is the most fragrant, made up of cascading purple or blue flowers and counterclockwise twining stems. Japanese wisteria has long flower clusters with stems that twine clockwise.
The meanings that seem to present themselves most in this list are associated with rice paddies, rivers, forests and wisteria. Many of the meanings of these last names have themes in nature ...
Wisteria and their racemes have been widely used in Japan throughout the centuries and were a popular symbol in mon (family crests) and heraldry. [31] Wisteria is one of the five most commonly used motifs in the mon, and there are more than 150 types of wisteria mon.
Wisteria japonica Siebold & Zucc. Wisteriopsis japonica is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae , native to Japan , Korea , and the Ryukyu Islands . [ 1 ] It was first described in 1839 as Wisteria japonica . [ 2 ] (
Wisteria brachybotrys, the silky wisteria, is a species of flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae from Japan. Some older references believed it to be of garden origin. [ 1 ] It is certainly very widely cultivated in its native Japan, with the white flowered cultivars more widely grown than the pale violet cultivars .