Title Ginmokusei

  • Nagano
Topic(s):
$SETTINGS_DB.genreMap.get($item) Shrines/Temples/Churches
Medium/Media of Use:
Interpretive Sign
Text Length:
≤250 Words
FY Prepared:
2019
Associated Tourism Board:
Nakasendo Tsumagojuku

銀木犀


特徴的な香りを放つ花

この常緑樹は、アジア原産で、tea olive、sweet oliveやfragrant oliveなどの英名でも知られています。この神社の神官の庭に生えている木は、ここに数百年も生えているものだと考えられています。幹が苔むし、枝が入り組んだこの木は、9月下旬から10月初旬にかすかに香る白く美しい花を付けます。


Ginmokusei


Flowers with a Distinctive Scent

This evergreen shrub is native to Asia, and is known variously as a tea olive, sweet olive, or fragrant olive (Osmanthus fragrans). This specimen is thought to have been growing here, in the garden of the priest of the local Shinto shrine, for hundreds of years. It has a mossy trunk and convoluted branches, and blooms in late September and early October with beautiful white flowers and a delicate fragrance.


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