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Wisteria floribunda

Botanic Family

Leguminosae

Author

(Willdenow) de Candolle

Common Names

• Japanese Wisteria
• Fuji (Japan)
• Noda Fuji

Geographical Habitats

• Honshu
• Kyushu
• Shikoku - Japan

Natural Habitats

• Thickets and woodland
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Apr-May (China) Early Summer

Fruiting Times

• May-Jul (China & Japan)

Woody twining deciduous liana with glabrous stems & leaves, imparipinnate leaves, 15-19 glabrescent leaflets to 70mm long. Slightly fragrant 20mm violet to purple & white flowers with small bracts in 300mm long racemes, puberulent calyx with tube 4mm long x 7mm & teeth to 2mm long, blue-purple corolla to 20mm long, dark brown seed pods velvety to 200mm x 20mm

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Valder 1995
• Nicholls 1995
• FOC
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Bodkin
• APDC
• The Plant List 2
• Botanicus
• NAF
• FOJ