kikyon.
A local name for Platycodon grandiflorum, a herbaceous perennial of the family Campanulaceæ, native to China and Japan; the Chinese bell-flower.
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1884 tr. J. J. Rein Japan: Trav. & Res. i. vii. 145 The splendid blue-flowered Kikiyo (Platycodon grandiflorum DC.)..appear in numbers only at a height of about 1,000 metres.
1899 L. Hearn In Ghostly Japan ii. 15 The crest upon the robe was the kikyō-flower.
1911 Encycl. Brit. XV. 162/1 If some familiar European flowers are absent, they are replaced by others strange to Western eyes..the kikyo (Platycodon grandiflorum).
1965 J. Ohwi Flora Japan 853/1 Platycodon grandiflorum... Kikyō... Frequently planted as an ornamental and for medicine.
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