Alisma is a genus of flowering plants in the family Alismataceae, members of which are commonly known as water-plantains. The genus consists of aquatic plants with leaves either floating or submerged, found in a variety of still water habitats around the world. The flowers are hermaphrodite, and are arranged in panicles, racemes, or umbels. Alisma flowers have six stamens, numerous free carpels in a single whorl, each with 1 ovule, and subventral styles. The fruit is an achene with a short beak.
Symplocarpus is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to United States, Canada and eastern Asia. The genus is characterized by having large leaves and deep root systems with contractile roots used for changing the plant's level with the ground. Symplocarpus species grow from a rhizome and their leaves release a foul odor when crushed.
Solidago virgaurea, the European goldenrod or woundwort, is an herbaceous perennial plant of the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across most of Europe as well as North Africa and northern, central, and southwestern Asia. It is grown as a garden flower with many different cultivars. It flowers profusely in late summer.
Kazuya Maekawa is a former Japanese football player. He played for Japan national team. His son Daiya Maekawa is also footballer.
Kunio Maekawa was a Japanese architect especially known for the Tokyo Bunka Kaikan building, and a key figure of modern Japanese architecture.
Maekawa is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Hiroshi Uchiyamada and Cool Five are a Japanese kayōkyoku group, formed by Hiroshi Uchiyamada in 1967 and fronted by the lead vocalist Kiyoshi Maekawa.
Ajania is a genus of flowering plants in the daisy family, described as a genus in 1955. The genus is native to temperate Asia, primarily Russia and China. It is named after the Russian port city Ayan in the Khabarovsk Krai region of the Russian Far East, on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Ixeridium is a genus of Asian flowering plants in the dandelion family.
Leucanthemella is a genus of flowering plants in the sunflower/daisy family Asteraceae.
Maekawa Station is a railway station in the city of Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company.
Jun Maekawa is a Japanese software engineer, mathematician, and origami artist. He is known for popularizing the method of utilizing crease patterns in designing origami models, with his 1985 publication Viva Origami, as well as other paperfolding-related theorems and mathematical analysis. One of them being Maekawa's theorem in relation to the flat-foldability of origami models.
Maekawa's theorem is a theorem in the mathematics of paper folding named after Jun Maekawa. It relates to flat-foldable origami crease patterns and states that at every vertex, the numbers of valley and mountain folds always differ by two in either direction. The same result was also discovered by Jacques Justin and, even earlier, by S. Murata.
Events in the year 1905 in Japan.
Carlina biebersteinii is a purple-flowered herb in the tribe Cynareae of the family Asteraceae. It is found in Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and in the Xinjiang region of China.
Pucciphippsia is a genus of Arctic plants in the grass family, reported from Greenland, Svalbard, and Magadan.
Taiga Maekawa is a Japanese football player for Cerezo Osaka.
Daiya Maekawa is a Japanese football player.
Ayaka Maekawa is a Japanese former professional tennis player.
Najas tenuissima is a species of flowering plant belonging to the family Hydrocharitaceae.
