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Mt.Kurodake autumn leaves report　
“Sorbus matsumurana”and“Arctous alpina var. japonica”tuned red earlier than usual year.
Today these coloring stay.
Some leaves turn red alittle.
But they are almost same as last report.
Day by day temperature is getting down in the morning and in the evening.
These temperature is not for autumn leaves.
・Mt.Kurodake ~Kumonodaira
“Sorbus matsumurana”lose color a little.
.・The top of Mt.Kurodake~Mt.Pon kurodake
“Arctous alpina var. japonica”turn red locally.
(Mt.Kurodake and Kumonodaira are also same.)

Weather forecast says,” temperature will be under 10 °c in the beginning of next week, after that tempreture will stay 11~15°c.
We wonder autumn leaves will not go quickly.

Today’s leaves color is almost same as last year’s.
Last year we saw beautiful autumn leaves in middle of September (Sep 13rd)
Everything depends on climate.
So we just look weather carefully everyday .

After snow melts, “Geum pentapetalum ” ,“Phyllodoce caerulea” ,“Cassiope lycopodioides (Pall.) D.Don” ,“Diapensia lapponica L. var. obovata F.Schmidt” and “Potentilla matsumurae” bloomed.
But the area is decreasing.
“Arctous alpina var. japonica” starts to turn red.
Around 9th station of Mt.Kurodake “Sorbus matsumurana” lose its color.
For the past ten years this year’s leaves turn to red very fast.
Will we see autumn leaves earlier than usual year?
But it depends on climate.
We are worry about Typhoon.
But it depends on climate.
August has just started.
Last year we saw autumn leaves on August 14th.
Autumn leaves has not started year.
So this year is 10 days earlier than last year.

From the summit of Mt.Kurodake to Mt.Ponkurodake “Therorhodion camtschaticum” blooms now. But most of them are almost finished.
“Bryanthus gmelinii”, “Pennellianthus frutescens” is still beautiful.
Blue flowers like ” Campanula lasiocarpa” starts blooming.
“Dicentra peregrina” is beautiful, too.
Year by year they spread their community.

Autumn flower stated to bloom.
“Solidago virgaurea subsp. leiocarpa” and summer flowers are blooming.
They spread to bloom and have many buds.
“Solidago virgaurea subsp. leiocarpa”, “Dactylorhiza aristata” ,” Geranium erianthum f. pallescens”, “Ranunculus acris var. nipponicus” , autumn flower like ” Campanula lasiocarpa” “Veronica stelleri var. longistyla” and kinds of “Cirsium” are blooming.
We are worry about typhoon.
We can see summer flower in Mt.Kurodake for a while.