Study on the cultivation of Acorus calamus with cultural use of native plant for a background in Kitaura district, Namekata City, Ibaraki Pref.

Abstract

It was investigated about the domestication proses of Acorus calamus, the cultivation method, the characteristics of distribution and landscape of A. calamus field in Kitaura district, Namekata city. The cultivation involves clone propagation by a subterranean stem, and the domestication of A. calamus has been tried from 1983 in this district. Total of 43 sites and 7.5 ha of A. calamus fields were observed in 2014 at low land in Kitaura lakefront area mainly. It was the feature of A. calamus field that collective common farming is seen at the harvest season before a Boys' Festival.