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【IHGIRI】
( Botanical name: Idesia polycarpa )
If you are walking or driving in the mountains in late Autumn
or early winter, you may happen to notice tall trees with bunches of red
drupelets.
They are Ihgiri (Idesia polycarpa) trees that belong to the
flacourtia family and range across Japan except for Hokkaido, Korea, Taiwan and part of
China. They grow as tall as twenty meters.
They are dioecious and deciduous. There are, for sure,
some Ihgiri trees that bear no fruit in fall. When leaves fall in midwinter, red
drupelets become more and more conspicuous. Brown-eared bulbuls seem to like
them. It is said that the wood used to be utilized for making home appliances
and Japanese wooden sandals called "geta".
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