It is then dyed with the kasuri technique using indigenous plant dyes and a mud mordant to give it its usual black-brown colouring; the plants used are the guru, techika, kurubo or Japanese persimmon, yamamomo, and yuna or cotton tree hibiscus.
Myrica rubra in the Myricaceae family, referred to as the Chinese strawberry tree
The name "Waxberry" is also a common mistranslation to the Chinese fruit, Yangmei (杨梅) or Myrica rubra.
It is named for a local fruit called yangmei (Myrica rubra).
Myrica rubra | Festuca rubra | Quercus rubra | Myrica | Plumeria rubra | Halocaridina rubra | Vriesea rubra | Thelymitra rubra | Spergularia rubra | Sarracenia rubra | Pityriasis rubra pilaris | Oxalis rubra | Hypotrix rubra | Filipendula rubra | Alnus rubra |