Did you know that despite its name - #JapaneseAnemone - that this pretty #perennial #plant isn't actually from Japan?
It was introduced there, hundreds of years ago & became naturalized. It is actually native to China, #Taiwan & #Vietnam.
It's been cultivated in gardens, worldwide.

Hundreds of years ago, a form of E. hupehensis with smaller, semi-double flowers & pink sepals escaped cultivation and spread across #China to #Japan & #Korea. After finding this form in a #Shanghai graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer/ #botanist Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European #horticulturists crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce #cultivars of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida.

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New cultivar post, this time a black tea one from the initial registration in October of 1953. This time there was some information available although it’s such an old cultivar that some of the usual comparisons with Yabukita are not there.

On top of that the registered ones for black tea sort of fell out of fashion once the black tea production failed to took off.

https://www.teanursery.com/akane/

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Resource-acquisitive strategy of #crops is largely due to the inheritance from their wild progenitors rather than to further #breeding improvements. Thus, early #human #selection of crops’ wild progenitors explains the acquisitive physiology of modern #cultivars:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-023-01588-6

Historical shifting in grain #Mineral density of landmark #Rice and #Wheat #Cultivars released over the past 50 years in India: Nature

In the Search for #Life beyond #Earth, #NASA Dreams Big for a Future #Space #Telescope : NASA

What was it like when the first #Elements formed? : Medium

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In search of lost #fruit: the explorers tracking down ancient #trees before they are gone forever https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/22/fruit-explorers-ancient-trees-virginia

Fruit and nut explorers traverse the US on an ecological mission to preserve the last #cultivars of old and important #plants.

`“They were crossbred with higher-producing varieties, meaning we got more Brussels sprouts that weren’t bitter... So by the time the 2010s rolled around, there were lots of Brussels sprouts, and they didn’t taste bitter anymore, and suddenly they’re incredibly palatable — and thus, really good on restaurant menus.”`

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/scientific-reason-why-everyone-suddenly-195136403.html

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