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　rose of sharon is a deciduous shrub of the family Aoiaceae, native to East Asia. It is considered a national flower in Korea and is the same as the flower hibiscus, which symbolizes the southern country, and is a representative flower tree that shines well in the blue sky and colors the summer.　　　　　　　　　Regarding the origin of the name of rose of sharon, it is said that the Korean name Mukunfa or the Chinese name Mugen was distorted.　　　　　As there are many species vulnerable to cold, such as hibiscus, it is cold-resistant and easy to withstand strong pruning, so it is widely used in garden trees and park trees as an easy-to-growing flower tree.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　White, red, light red, reddish purple, compound color and flower color are abundant, single-flowered, semi-double-flowered, double-flowered and a wide variety of flower shapes. double-flowered also has a wide variety of varieties, including turbulent, chrysanthemum, and ball.　　　　　　　　　　　The flower stamens (Kazui) protrudes straight at the center of the corolla, the pillars are split five, and many stamens are connected in a cylindrical shape, and each grain of pollen is clearly visible to the naked eye.　　　　　　　　　　　　It is a so-called "one-day flower", and it is said that it will wither almost one day after flowering, and is compared to "Gunka's one-day Sakae".　　The life of each flower is short, but it has a lot of buds and continues to bloom for a relatively long time in Kimata body.　The fragileness that withering in one day leads to the tea ceremony's "apology silence" and "once-in-a-lifetime encounter", and in particular, the white single flower and the bottom red rose of sharon is called "Sodangi Geun" according to the taste of Senke's third generation Sotan Senno, and is often decorated in the summer tea ceremony.　　The rose of sharon planted on the Sumida River terrace at the site of the Tsukuda Island ferry port is in full bloom toward the summer sky against the backdrop of Tsukuda-ohashi Bridge.