Ōtagawa

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989. Nihon no Chinka, p.69, colour photo and description: Medium size, faintest pink, single of 5 ovate, emarginate petals, opening wide cup-shaped with a central column of stamens with yellow filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Leaves glossy, dark green, elliptic to broad-elliptic, apices acuminate. Blooms mid-season. Originated in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan with a private family. Found and named by Fumio Hironaka, released by Nobuo Sasai in 1972.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.69     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.47.  【花】移り白の一重、肉厚、中折れ、筒〜ラッ パ咲き、筒しベ、小〜中輪、1〜3月。【葉】 長楕円、中形。【樹】立性、強い。【来歴】広 島県内の民家の栽培種より選抜。発見•命名 は広中文雄、1972年に笹井延夫の発表。写•

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