119th Jasper Tree

Hello.

I am Han SungSoon, a wildflower storyteller who is making his first appearance in the world.

Today, I will introduce you to the 119th Jasper Tree, a wildflower story that is making its first appearance in the world.

Korean name Jasper Tree [Not recommended name: Minjasper Tree]
Scientific name Callicarpa japonica Thunb.
Family name Angler Verbenaceae
English name East Asian beautyberry
Flowering June~August
Flower color Purple
Distribution Korea, China, Japan, etc.

The Jasper Tree flower language is intelligence.

Until the sweltering heat disappears and a cool breeze blows, making your heart flutter, a small tree hanging cute purple beads on the edge of a mountain catches your eye.

The beautiful Jasper Tree fruit, which resembles the beautiful amethyst color, is a work of artisan Mother Nature.

From spring to summer, the zelkova quietly prepares to produce beautiful autumn fruits.
During this period, it blends in with the greenery of its similar neighboring trees and does not show itself at all.
Unless you have an expert's eye, you cannot find it.

The flowers are only produced on a midsummer day from June to August, when the green of the forest becomes even darker. The zelkova finally releases lavendercolored, grainlike flowers from the leaf axils.
However, the flowers are so small that they hardly attract the attention of bees or butterflies.
The fruits that open next, the size of a millet seed, gradually change to lavender as autumn ripens, revealing their hidden beauty little by little.
Another thing that the zelkova is proud of is that the fruits do not fall for a long time until the cold wind blows over the bare branches where the leaves have fallen and completely sweeps them away.
The fruits are not alone, but are clustered together in dozens, as if the delicate branches are about to bend.

The Chinese called the beauty of the pine fruit purple pearl, or ‘purple pearl’.
On the other hand, the Japanese name is ‘Murasaki Shikibu’.
It is the same name as the author of their famous classic novel, The Tale of Genji.
A smart and beautiful woman who became a widow at the age of only 25, whom the Japanese cherished and loved so much, was named after the pine fruit.
This shows how much they loved the pine fruit.

However, our country calls the same tree ‘Jaksal’, a somewhat bleak name.
When something goes wrong and is completely ruined or broken and shattered, we often say ‘Jaksal Nanda’.
The name of the pine fruit is not a horse whip, but a harpoon for catching fish.
This is because the threebranched branches of this tree resemble harpoons.

There are three types of japonica, including the little japonica and the saebi tree, growing in Korea.
They look similar to each other, and the fruit of the japonica tree is thicker than other types of japonica, with a diameter of 4~5mm.
The little japonica tree has serrations only on more than half of the edges of the leaves, and the fruit is much smaller than the japonica tree, with a diameter of 2~3mm, like the letter 'j'.
The most commonly planted tree around us is the little japonica tree, which has more attractive fruit.
The saebi tree looks almost like the japonica tree, but it has hairs on the surface of its leaves and mainly grows only in island regions along the southern coast.
There are the small pine tree (C. japonica var. taquetii), which has leaves that are about 3cm long, and the large japonica tree (C. japonica var. luxurians), which has large leaves, flowers, and fruits overall.

In addition, white saplings with milky white fruit are also being developed and planted as horticultural varieties, but saplings are best when they have purple beads.

The fruit, which looks like a bunch of lovely grapes, is used as a material for flower arrangements.

The stems and leaves are used as medicine in oriental medicine.

The stems are used as nephritis, antipyretics, and diuretics, and the leaves are used as hemostatics and antibacterials.

Today, we introduce the 119th wildflower story, saplings, which are making their first appearance in the world.

Thank you.

Click on the timeline to quickly watch the key explanations by section.
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:35 Sapling flower language
00:00:40 Introduction to saplings
00:02:33 Different sapling names in different countries
00:05:21 Sapling efficacy
00:01:58 Saplings

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