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Chamaegastrodia is a genus of flowering plants from the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Four species are currently recognized (May 2014), all native to eastern Asia and the Himalayas. Chamaegastrodia guidongensis L.Wu, H.Z.Tian & C.Z.Huang Chamaegastrodia inverta (W.W.Sm.) Seidenf. - Sichuan, Yunnan Chamaegastrodia shikokiana Makino & F.Maek. - Japan, Korea, Assam, Bhutan, Nepal, Sichuan, Tibet Chamaegastrodia vaginata (Hook.f.) Seidenf. - Assam, Bhutan, Hubei, Sichuan

Eleorchis (Elo in trade journals) is a genus of terrestrial orchids (family Orchidaceae). As of June 2014, it contains only one recognized species, Eleorchis japonica, native to Japan and to the Kuril Islands.

Allium virgunculae is a species of onion native to warm areas of Kyushu, Japan. Available from commercial suppliers, it is a late blooming ornamental onion, reaching about 25 cm, and considered to be a good plant to attract pollinators.

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Asarum asperum is a species of flowering plant in the pipevine family, Aristolochiaceae. It is endemic to Japan, where it is found on Shikoku and in the western regions of Honshu. It is particularly common in the vicinity of Kyoto and Nara. It is a perennial that produces thick evergreen leaves, which are ovate-orbicular and have a subhastate base. It produces ground-level maroon flowers, that are pollinated by insects. The flowering tube is prominently constricted at its apex. It blooms in April. It forms colonies on the forest floor, where it often grows co-occurs with Ainsliaea cordifolia,

Hosta venusta, the handsome plantain lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae, native to Jeju Island of South Korea, with a few populations in central Japan. It may have arisen from Hosta minor populations isolated on Jeju since the last ice age. One of the smallest hostas, it cold hardy to USDA zone 3, shade tolerant, and is well suited for rock gardens, borders and as a ground cover.

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Hosta kiyosumiensis (キヨスミギボウシ, kiyosumigiboushi) is a species of Hosta, found in Japan from Kanto south to Chubu and Kansai, and encompassing the entire central part of Honshu. Plants range from 30 to 45 cm in diameter, and up to 25 cm high. Petiole is 7.5–10 by 0.7 cm, erect, broadly grooved, keeled, triangular in cross section, green in color and at the base barely purple dotted. Leaves are 10–15 by 5–7.5 cm. Specimens exhibit many different leaf shapes from narrow-lanceolate to widely-ovate, with straight or wavy margins.

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Hosta (, syn. Funkia) is a genus of plants commonly known as hostas, plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibōshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants. The genus is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Agavoideae, and is native to northeast Asia (China, Japan, Korea, and the Russian Far East). Like many "lilioid monocots", the genus was once classified in the Liliaceae. The genus was named by Austrian botanist Leopold Trattinnick in 1812, in honor of the Austrian botanist Nicholas Thomas Host. In 1817, the generic name Funkia was used by

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