Akagi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.237, colour photo and text: Medium size, campanulate single, with 5 overlapping, somewhat emarginate petals; red with irregular white blotching. Stamens cylindrical, anthers yellow. Leaves obovate to broad-obovate, dark green, apices acute, margins serrate, waved. Late flowering. Originated in Gumma Prefecture, Japan. A seedling of Hakkan. Named and released by Yoshizawa Camellia Nursery in Kawaguchi City in 1970.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ142.　誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.11　日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.142. 群馬產. [花]朱紅色地に白斑が入る、一重、椀咲き、筒しベ、中輪、4月。[葉]楕円、中形。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]沼田市でできた白賊の自然実生、1970年頃に川口市安行の吉沢椿樹園の命名.発表。写/桐野、文/太田