Eupatorium fortunei

Eupatorium fortunei is a plant species in the family Asteraceae native from Asia where it is rare in the wild but commonly cultivated.

Plants are upright growing with green stems that are often tinted with reddish or purple dots.

The flowers are in capitula, which are numerous and arranged in apical compound corymbs; inflorescence 3 to 10 cm across.

In Japanese it is known as fujibakama, a term that is also applied to cultivated Eupatorium flowers which have noticeable differences (in leaf shape) from the wild E.

[1][2] In Traditional Chinese Medicine it is indicated for poor appetite, nausea and vomiting due to 'dampness' obstructions or summer heat.

Eupatorium fortunei, in Vietnam Museum of Ethnology