Ms. Que Banh<p>Did you know that despite its name - <a href="https://beige.party/tags/JapaneseAnemone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JapaneseAnemone</span></a> - that this pretty <a href="https://beige.party/tags/perennial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>perennial</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/plant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>plant</span></a> isn't actually from Japan?<br>It was introduced there, hundreds of years ago & became naturalized. It is actually native to China, <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Taiwan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Taiwan</span></a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vietnam</span></a>.<br>It's been cultivated in gardens, worldwide.</p><p>Hundreds of years ago, a form of E. hupehensis with smaller, semi-double flowers & pink sepals escaped cultivation and spread across <a href="https://beige.party/tags/China" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>China</span></a> to <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Japan</span></a> & <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Korea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Korea</span></a>. After finding this form in a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Shanghai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shanghai</span></a> graveyard in 1843, the plant explorer/ <a href="https://beige.party/tags/botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botanist</span></a> Robert Fortune sent it home to England where it became known as E. japonica, the Japanese anemone. European <a href="https://beige.party/tags/horticulturists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horticulturists</span></a> crossed the Japanese anemone with E. vitifolia to produce <a href="https://beige.party/tags/cultivars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cultivars</span></a> of the artificial hybrid E. × hybrida.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/bloomscrolling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bloomscrolling</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/florespondence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>florespondence</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PerennialPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PerennialPlants</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/flowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>flowers</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Saanich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Saanich</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/GardeningMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GardeningMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/gardens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gardens</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Floral" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Floral</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/botanical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botanical</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/pink" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pink</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/InBloom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InBloom</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nature</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/BCblooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BCblooms</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/YYJ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>YYJ</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VictoriaBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VictoriaBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VancouverBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VancouverBC</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VanIsle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VanIsle</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Cascadia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cascadia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Zone8" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Zone8</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PacificNorthwest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PacificNorthwest</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PNW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PNW</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FlowerPhotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlowerPhotos</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/FlowersIdentification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FlowersIdentification</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PlantIdentification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlantIdentification</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/botanical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botanical</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/AsianMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AsianMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/TootSEA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TootSEA</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/SouthEastAsia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SouthEastAsia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PlantTrivia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlantTrivia</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/PlantHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PlantHistory</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/LearnAboutPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LearnAboutPlants</span></a></p>