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ICNCP Name: 'Toyora-dera'
Formerly 'Toyora dera'
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:
Hardiness Zone (for guidance only):
5 to 9
豊浦寺, toyo ura dera (lit. forunate bay temple) would normally be pronounced with a long ō. But Nakajima gives us a specific pronunciation, perhaps historical, which we must accept to write 'Toyora-dera' as the epithet. This ancient ruin is Asuka, Nara was considered one of Japan's earliest Buddhist temples, dating to the 6th or 7th century CE. Originally it was home to Princess Toyora, later Empress of Emperor Tōmei. The temple was famous as the first female monarch of Japan, Empress Suiko, and where her husband Prince Shōtoku gave his seminal lectures on the Buddhist scriptures. (ED)
Date of Origin if known:
1882
Origin if known:
Nakajima
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