Category:

Municipally Designated Natural Monument

Title:

Kamikocho hikawajinja no mokkoku

The Japanese Ternstroemia of Kamikocho Hikawa-jinja Shrine

上小町氷川神社のモッコク

No. of features:

One tree

Designated:

June 9, 1994

Location:

1110 Kamikocho, Omiya Ward

Owner:

The religious juridical person of Hikawa-jinja Shrine

Description:

 This Japanese ternstroemia (Ternstroemia gymnathera) measured 15 meters tall at the time of designation, with a trunk circumference of 1.84 meters, a base circumference of 5.7 meters, and a canopy spreading 9.2 meters East-West and 8.05 meters North-South. 

Japanese ternstroemia have thick, oblong leaves with a distinct glossiness. In summer, the tree bears tiny, white, five-petaled flowers in its upper canopy. The downwards-facing flowers develop into round fruits about 1 cm in diameter that ripen to red in the autumn.

Please be courteous towards other visitors, locals, and the sites’ owners/curators when visiting these cultural properties.

Inquiries (Japanese only)

Cultural Heritage Preservation Division, Department of Lifelong Learning, Board of Education Secretariat　

TEL：048-829-1723 FAX：048-829-1989

https://www.city.saitama.jp/004/005/006/001/005/002/003/p000602.html