Ōmon

Hagiya & Ishizawa, 1967, Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki Tokushū, No.8 p.18: Medium size, 9-10 cm across, light red peony to rose form double of 3-4 rows of petals of irregular shape, 9-10 outer petals and 24 inner petals, long and slender, 150 stamens mixed with small, twisted centre petals. Leaves bright green, 10 cm long, elliptic, apex acute, margins finely, shallowly serrulate. Originated in Japan in Muramatsu-chō, Naka-kanbara­-gun, Niigata Prefecture in 1958. For colour photo & description; see: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.27 & p.203.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.44. 花】紅色の牡丹〜八重咲き、ユキツバキ状芯の中輪、3〜4月。【葉】楕円、中形、反曲。【樹】叢生、ユキ系。【来歴】中蒲原郡の民家の栽培種。石沢進の採集、1967年に萩屋薰の命名•