満天星 azale de lanterne

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For a long time I had been believed this flower's name is andromeda.
The true name of this flower is Enkianthus perulatus.
The Japanese name is Dohdan-tsutuji.
Andromeda's japanese name is asebi or asibi.

I learned the latter name in a mystery when I was twelve years old.
A criminal throws these nuts into a miso supe to kill the victims in vain.
The detective named Heiji of Coins (銭形平次) is reported a beautiful little daughter of victim couple playing with this flower. He says to his agent, "If a horse would eat this plant, it should be killed with the poison of this plant. If the horse could survive, it could not walk like a man who have drunken too much. So it is called Drunken Horse tree(馬酔木) ."
In my mother's garden, there is no andromeda.
I think she would have been feared for me to eat it.
In my childhood, I always tasted anything which I got in the garden.