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ICNCP Name: 'Kōyasan'
Formerly 'Kôyasan'
The International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP) establishes the rules and regulations for proper naming of plants. When different, the cultivar database displays the correct(ed) ICNCP name, rather than its previous cultivar name.
Japanese Maple Classification:
Matsumurae Group
Hardiness Zone (for guidance only):
5 to 9
Koyasan (DVDM). It is unclear how this maple gained its current name, but presumably van der Maat named it one way, and then transcribed it differently. So for now, we stick with PG's listing, and fix the macron for compliance. The name, refers to a school of Buddhism found at 高野山 or Kōya-san, a sacred mountain, Mount Kōya, in Wakayama Prefecture, headquarters of the Shingon School of Buddhism. According to folklore, Kōbō Daishi (meaning Great Teacher, the title of the eponymous tale ) followed the directions of Gods of the mountain, including the mountain King, to find the place to build the temple Kongōbu-ji (金剛峯寺), in "a place that was just like a bowl, with eight peaks all around it. Huge cypresses towered there, as dense and straight as bamboos." [Royall Tyler trans, 1987]. There he founded Kōyasan Shingon Buddhism. Miracles followed his death, "on the tewnty-first day of the third moon of 835." {RT, 1987]
Kôyasan is a compact growing maple with bronze, red new growth, fading to green. It will be semi columnar grower to about 10'. Fall color is butter yellow to red. (DSN, as Koyasan)
Date of Origin if known:
Origin if known:
Dick van der Maat
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