ニオイバンマツリは爽やかな芳香があります。英名は「昨日は青紫色だった花が、今日は薄紫色になり、明日は白色になる」を短縮したもの。
The flowers of Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow have a refreshing fragrance. Their English name is a shortened version of the sentence, “The flowers that were violet yesterday are light purple today and will be white tomorrow.”
【仮名】ニオイバンマツリ, ブルンフェルシア
【和名】匂蕃茉莉
【英名】Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow, Brunfelsia
【学名】Brunfelsia australis
【誕生】05/ 23, 09/ 10, 12/ 21, 12/ 28
【開花】04, 05, 06, 07, 08月
【花色】White, Purple, Violet
ニオイバンマツリ
ニオイバンマツリの生態
ニオイバンマツリはナス科ブルンフェルシア属の常緑低木。原産地は熱帯の中南米、西インド諸島です。日本へは明治時代末期に観賞用で渡来し、暖地では屋外で地植え、寒地では屋内で鉢植え栽培。花着きがよく、春から秋まで花が咲き続け、夏の盛りには木全体が花で覆われます。
ニオイバンマツリの名前
ニオイバンマツリの和名「匂蕃茉莉」は「香りのある異国のジャスミン」という意味です。英名は「昨日は青紫色だった花が、今日は薄紫色になり、明日は白色になるだろう」を短縮して「昨日、今日、明日」という意味。学名の「ブルンフェルシア」は園芸名としても用いられます。
ニオイバンマツリの形態
ニオイバンマツリの葉は互生。長い楕円形で表面に光沢があり、裏面に毛が生えています。花は漏斗状で花弁が５枚。爽やかな芳香があります。花は咲き始めが青紫色、途中が薄紫色、咲き終わりが白色。１本の木に３色の花が一緒に咲くので、「浮気な人」という花言葉があります。
ニオイバンマツリの毒性
ニオイバンマツリには「幸運」や「熱心」といった肯定的な花言葉もある一方、じつは木全体に毒性があります。特に果実には有毒成分のブルンフェルサミジンが多く含まれていて要注意。犬や猫が誤食すると、嘔吐や痙攣、ふらつきなどの症状が起こり、死に至る可能性もあります。
Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
They are an evergreen shrub belonging to the Solanaceae family. They are native to tropical Central and South America and the West Indies. They were introduced to Japan as an ornamental plant in the late Meiji period. In warm areas, they are planted outdoors, and in cold areas, they are indoors in pots. They flower well, blooming continuously from spring to autumn, and the whole tree is covered with flowers in midsummer.
Their Japanese name, Nioibanmatsuri, means “scented foreign jasmine.” The English name “Yesterday-today-and-tomorrow” is abbreviation of “The flowers that were violet yesterday are light purple today and will be white tomorrow”. The scientific name “Brunfelsia” is also used as a horticultural name.
The leaves of them are alternate. They have a long oval shape with a shiny upper surface and hairy undersides. The flowers are funnel-shaped and have five petals. They have a refreshing fragrance. The flowers are violet at the beginning of blooming, light purple in the middle, and white at the end of blooming. Three colors of flowers bloom together on one tree, so there is a flower language called “a flirtatious person”.
While there are positive flower words such as “luck” and “enthusiasm” in them, the whole tree is actually toxic. In particular, the fruit contains a large amount of the toxic ingredient brunfersamidin, so be careful. If a dog or cat accidentally ingests it, symptoms such as vomiting, convulsions, and lightheadedness may occur, and it may even lead to death.
