Balloon flowers are blooming

2020.06.23

Balloon flower 

Balloon flowers are the perennial herbaceous plants belonging to the genus Platycodon of the family Campanulaceae.

 

Their flowers are star-shaped and purple.They have been familiar to Japanese people as the autumn flowers since a long time ago. For example,they were called in Manyoshu(the first major anthology of early Japanese poetry).

  

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