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The "Miyatojima-giku" (Chrysanthemum x miyatojimense) belongs to Asteraceae 'the Aster family). It is a perennial herb that was discovered on Miyatojima Island in Higashimatsushima City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, in 1929 by Professor Arika Kimura (later the first director of the Tohoku University Botanical Garden, 1900-1996). Since then, it has been found growing wild in Shiogama City, Miyagi Prefecture, and Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture. It is known that the "Chrysanthemum grandiflorum" often hybridizes with wild Chrysanthemum to form natural hybrids, and this species is a hybrid between the "Chrysanthemum grandiflorum" and the "Ko-hama-giku" (Chrysanthemum arcticum ssp. maekawanum). It grows along the coast and is 50 to 70 cm tall. The leaves are ovate-triangular to slightly fan-shaped, 2.5 to 4 cm long, and divided into fronds with two pairs of lateral lobes. The leaf surface is green with scattered long hairs, and the underside is densely covered with soft hairs. Around October, white head-shaped flowers, 4 cm in diameter, bloom at the top of the stem.
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