Ata-no-kimi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.371, colour photo and description: Large size, peony form, incomplete double with 2­3 rows of large, rounded, outer petals and a convex centre of erect, folded and twisted, small petals with stamens and petaloids intermixed. White ground with streaks of pink and red. Leaves bright, mid-green, elliptic to lanceolate, apices acute, margins shallowly serrate. Blooms mid-season to late. The original tree survives in a private garden in Kōriyama Town. Named and released by Kagoshima Camellia Society in 1980.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.21. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.188. 鹿児島產. [花]白地に紅色の縦絞り、牡丹咲き、大輪、2～4月。[葉]楕円、中形。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]日置郡の民家に原木がある、1980年に鹿児島椿協会の命名.発表。写.文/田邊