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Morning glories have been enjoyed by many people since ancient times. Especially since the Edo period (1603-1867), there have been repeated morning glory booms in the Bunka ・ Bunsei period, Kaei ・ Ansei period, and Meiji ・ Taisho period, resulting in the creation of morning glories with flowers and leaves of various shapes that do not look like morning glories, known as variant morning glories. In particular, although morning glories are annuals, the fact that they have been able to maintain their non-seeding varieties by seed is unique even from a global perspective, and by the Kaei ・ Ansei period at the end of the Edo period, it seems that an extremely large number of varieties had been produced.
However, after the Taisho period (1912-1926), while the cultivation of large-flowered morning glories, which are still widely grown today, flourished, the number of morning glory enthusiasts gradually declined, and after World War II, the varieties were maintained by only a few enthusiasts. Fortunately, many of the variants of the variant morning glories that originated in the Edo period have been maintained to this day through the efforts of enthusiasts and researchers. Therefore, since 1999, the garden has exhibited these morning glories as a historical resource in order to promote awareness of traditional morning glories created with creative knowledge and techniques since the Edo period, and to see the relationship between people and plants.

This time, under the theme of "Woo Changchun's Phantom Morning Glory Materials," panels will introduce the achievements of geneticist ・ Woo Changchun, and the morning glory materials he studied.
Potted morning glories grown in the Kurashino Botanical Garden will be displayed in the greenhouse, pavilion, and reed beds.

●Variety of morning glories: 40 strains of regular tree type and 25 strains of emergent type
●About 25 strains of large-flowered morning glories since the Meiji era
●European ・ About 10 strains of closely related morning glories from North America


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