both of which have lantern-like flowers, but they're very different plants. Physalis alkekengi is perennial in zones 3–9 and, depending on the region, may also be called Japanese lantern plant or ...

A new species and genus of fairy lantern, tiny glass-like white plants that feed on fungi ... for a brief period produce above-ground flowers that look like glasswork. The Japanese name for Thismia, ...

People who say they don’t like maple trees invariably like this maple tree. Learn how to plant a Japanese maple tree in your own yard, and you'll soon understand why. These maples are compact ...

The Japanese-American artist, designer, and architect conceived these ingenious forms during a 1951 visit to the town of Gifu ...

stone lanterns, stepping stone paths, native Japanese plants, serene koi ponds, a five-story pagoda and a Zen garden. You’ll want to plan your visit foo March or April when the garden’s cherry ...

A tiny grain of nuclear fuel is pulled from ruined Japanese nuclear plant, in a step toward cleanup A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima ...

tropical plants that surrounded a beautiful, three-story wooden pagoda,” according to a story in The Fresno Bee. There were two ponds, three fountains and an 11-foot, three-ton stone lantern ...

The lantern festival at Manpukuji temple also commemorates the 350th anniversary of the death of its founder, Yin Yuan (1592-1673), as he is called in Chinese. Japanese know him as Ingen.

What is a Japanese spider crab ... These slow-moving crabs don’t hunt, preferring to scavenge for dead animal or plant matter, though they may also eat live fish or invertebrates such as ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Make a reservation a few days in advance for the Zen-like Umami Café, which offers Japanese teas and ... water and plants that come from influences of the Shinto, Buddhist ...

SHIMABARA, Nagasaki Prefecture—International students were invited to join a lantern boat festival here ... from the Shimabara International Japanese Language Institute worked together to ...

At this year’s Lotus Festival, hundreds of paper lanterns hovered above Echo Park Lake in honor ... an upscale izakaya (“stay ...