Reader Collection > Blog > Plant Families

 

Plant Families S-Z Represented in Japanese Art

 

Scientific FAMILY 

Name of one FAMILY member

 

Sample Picture

SALICACEAE

willow

(Salix gilgiana)

 

SANTALACEAE

buckleya

(Buckleya lanceolata)

 

SAPINDACEAE

horse-chestnut

(Aesculus hippocastanum)

 

SAURURACEAE

chameleon-

plant

(Houttuynia cordata)

 

SAXIFRAGACEAE

creeping

saxifrage

(Saxifraga stolonifera)

 

SCHISANDRACEAE

Japanese

kadsura

(Kadsura japonica)

 

SCROPHULARIACEAE

princess tree

(Paulownia tomentosa)

 

SMILACACEAE

Chinese smilax

(Smilax china)

 

 

SOLANACEAE

Japanese-

lantern

(Physalis alkekengi)

 

SPARGANIACEAE

bur reed

(Sparganium sp.)

 

STACHYURACEAE

spike tail

(Stachyurus praecox)

 

 

STEMONACEAE

stemona

(Stemona japonica)

 

 

STERCULIACEAE

Chinese

 parasol-tree

(Firmiana simplex)

 

STRELITZIACEAE

bird-of-paradise-tree

(Strelitzia sp.)

 

 

STYRACACEAE

styrax

(Styrax obassia)

 

 

SYMPLOCACEAE

kurobai

(Symplocos prunifolia)

 

 

TAXACEAE

Japanese

torreya

(Torreya nucifera)

 

THEACEAE

camellia

(Camellia japonica)

 

THYMELAEACEAE

winter daphne

(Daphne odora)

 

TILIACEAE

linden

(Tilia miqueliana)

 

TOFIELDIACEAE

tofieldia

(Tofeldia nuda)

 

 

TRAPACEAE

water chestnut

(Trapa japonica)

 

 

TROPAEOLACEAE

garden

 nasturtium

(Tropaeolum majus)

 

 

TYPHACEAE

common cattail

(Typha latifolia)

 

VALERIANACEAE

scabious

patrinia

(Patrinia scabosifolia)

 

VERBENACEAE

purple

beauty-berry

(Callicarpa dichotoma)

 

VIOLACEAE

Manchurian violet

(Viola mandshurica)

 

 

VITACEAE

Japanese-

creeper

(Parthenocissus tricuspidata)

 

WOODSIACEAE

sensitive fern

(Onoclea sensibilis)

 

 

XANTHORRHOEACEAE

red-hot-poker

(Kniphofia uvaria)

 

 

ZINGIBERACEAE

white turmeric

(Curcuma zedoaria)

 

 

 

 

Plant Families  A-C   D-M   N-R   S-Z   or   Back to Blog