Hepatica 2010

[Rodger Whitlock]

Can anyone please explain to me how there can be a benefit of pruning roots of a herb? Of course I remove dead roots from anything I replant but why pruning live roots? Pruning roots of bonsai is a different issue but I would not try to dwarf a hepatica?

The bonsaists (to coin a word) don't prune roots solely to dwarf their pet trees. It seems to be a matter of keeping the root system young and healthy. The general rule with established bonsai is to remove about one third of the root system annually.

Really, any potted plant with a perennial root system probably needs this treatment to stay in the best of health. What the underlying physiological facts are I don't know, but it may be nothing more than that old roots simply aren't as efficient in absorbing nutrients from the soil.

And there's the fact that the process evidently leads to better health of the plants; the proof is in the pudding, as it's often said. (What is the Swedish equivalent to that adage?)

[tetsuo]

 Translate Japanese name
 'Sakuragari'・・・perhaps it is Sakuragai. Sakura-gai means Pink-shell.
                         Sakura is the cherry blossom.
  'Hokkik0'・・・A song of a travellor who lost his dream and go
                        home in north of Japan.
 'Tamamushi'・・・Japanese jewel beetle with iridescent color
 ' Anjyu'・・・peaceful happiness, girl's name in old japanese story.
 ' Shihouden'・・・ Treasure house
 ' Hayato' ・・・It means old Japanese people who live in Kyushu.
                      I cannot understand the meanning.Is spelling wright?
                               

[chris]

I dont now if the spelling is right, I have the name from the nursery where I bought it, 'Shikoku Garden'

[Gerry Webster]

Translate Japanese name

 ' Anjyu'・・・peaceful happiness, girl's name in old japanese story.
 

Tetsuo - is this the story 'Sansho Dayu', the source of the wonderful film by Mizoguchi Kenji?

[tetsuo]

Gerry Webster  ,  That' right!
 " Sansho-dayu" is a famous story in the medieval Japan. It is played as Jyoruri
play. Mori ogai wrote this as a novel. And it was filmed by Mizoguchi Kenzi.
In this story , Sanshodayu is a broker and sell young "Anzyu-hime". Hime
means princess. ・・・・・・。

[tetsuo]

Chris
I found the Hepatica which is named "Hayato". Hayato means the brave people who lived in the south of  old Japan .
The name is right as you said . But it is very difficult to know the reasons why .
I can not explain the relation between the name and the flower. I think it was named
as mere feeling.

[chris]

thank you verry much Tetsuo,
here two pics of a seedling, all the flowers have double bracts and two rows of six flowerleaves,

[annew]

But only 6 stamens! So that's where the extra tepals (is that right?) came from!

[chris]

Anne,
when I was sending this I haven't my dictionary with me and I'm not that good in languages thats why I wrote flowerleaves but I think it must be sepals or petals, is there a theacher on the forum?

[arilnut]

Hi Chris.  Technically you were right on, flowers are just modified leaf material.

John B

Anne,
when I was sending this I haven't my dictionary with me and I'm not that good in languages thats why I wrote flowerleaves but I think it must be sepals or petals, is there a theacher on the forum?

[annew]

Whatever they are, it is a beauty!

[TheOnionMan]

Looking at various floras describing Hepatica, they refer to usual 3 leaf-like items that subtend the flower as involucral bracts, involucral leaves, or just bracts, and the flowers themselves as sepals.  Seems simple enough to refer to them as bracts and sepals.

[TheOnionMan]

By the way, was looking around at this web site today, some beautiful Hepatica (check pages 1-4):
http://www.kalle-k.dk/hepatica%20English.htm

...and there's even a page on Hepatica leaf forms, some are beautiful.
http://www.kalle-k.dk/hepatica%20leaf%20English.htm

[Maggi Young]

Yes,McMark that is the website of forumist Karl Kristensen ..... lovely, isn't it?

[chris]

thank you Marc, here another strange plant, sometimes with doubles the year that you divide them some make pistels and stamens, in stress the plant will produce seeds, with H.jap.'Imaizumi' I have every year double and single flowers on the same plant: