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Identifying a plant in Japan

BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
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A friend recently sent me this photo taken when he was on holiday in Tokyo. What are the plants, please? Are they real or have they been doctored?


Rutland, England
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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    According to Google - 
    https://plantcaretoday.com/kochia-scoparia.html
    Yes it's real

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I grew some in the 70s. I think mine were redder.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ScarletmistScarletmist Posts: 23
    Wow they are different 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    That's their autumn colour. They're a lime green colour in the summer if I remember correctly. I'm pretty sure they're not hardy.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Amazing they are natural, looks like someone’s been out with a spray can.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think these may have been touched up a wee bit with the colour.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Lyn said:
    I think these may have been touched up a wee bit with the colour.
    I'm sure they have Lyn.
    Ghastly things


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Arthur1Arthur1 Posts: 542
    Kochia can be grown as hha. I also think that the colour has been 'touched up'.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If you look at the background it appears that the ‘blue range’ has been turned up. 

    My school friend’s father used to grow those in his garden … they were a bit more orange than in the    first photo. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited November 2022
    I googled Kochia.  www.gardeningexpress had pics of Kochia in autumn colours of red and brown.  A big display,  probably  Japan.  www.rhs said "often colours well in autumn".  "Often is the key word, don't expect them to be anything else but variable in UK conditions.  Two different species names.

    They used to be widely sold as "Burning Bush" as bedding plants.  I haven't looked recently.  A bit too coccinella-esque for my taste!
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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