|
''Ripogonum scandens'', (commonly known as supplejack, Māori: kareao, pirita, translated as ''"twisted rope"'') is a common rainforest vine native to New Zealand. It can also grow in areas of swamp.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.asp?ID=1260 )〕 Supplejack is a climbing liana, that has hard but flexible stems. It starts its life as a sappy stem searching for a support. Once it finds a shrub or tree to cling onto, it grows upwards to access sunlight, where it then develops branches and leaves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.kawhia.maori.nz/healing-plants-3.html )〕 The Supplejack flowers from December to February. It however bears clusters of red berries throughout the year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.taranakiplants.net.nz/natives/lowland/supplejack.html )〕 During summer supplejack tips grow 5 centimetres a day, enabling the plant to climb high up into the canopy of the forest.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/conifer-broadleaf-forests/1/3/1 )〕 ==Taxonomy== In 1769, during explorer Lieutenant James Cook's first voyage of discovery, botanists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander collected specimens of "supplejack" (''Ripogonum scandens'') in New Zealand. The species was described in Solander's unpublished manuscript ''Primitiae Florae Novae Zelandiae'' and was illustrated by Sydney Parkinson. Cook again visited New Zealand in 1773 during his second voyage. While anchored at Dusky Bay (now Dusky Sound) in the South Island of New Zealand, he remarked in his journal: During this voyage naturalist Johann Reinhold Forster, assisted by his son Georg Forster collected plant specimens, the elder Forster offering the following description in his journal: In 1776, the Fosters published the genus ''Ripogonum'' in the second edition of their ''Characteres Generum Plantarum'' with ''Ripogonum scandens'' as the type species. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ripogonum scandens」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|