Benisashi

Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchishū, p.245: Vertical marks of pale, peach pink and dark, peach pink on a white ground. The flowers colour changes, one is white, another dark peach red; single, campanulate with cylindrical stamen column. Medium size flower. Mid-season to late flowering. Leaves, medium size, wide-oval; apex blunt acute. Plant habit wide spreading, slow growth. See Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.257, colour photo. A natural “Yabu-tsubaki” from Tabira-chō, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Discoveredby Tokio Kozato in 1976, named and released by Zaiki Kajikawa.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.257　. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.231. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.208. 長崎產. [花]白、濃桃色、白地に濃桃色や淡桃色の縦絞り等に咲き分ける、一重、筒～ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、中輪、2～4月。[葉]長楕円、中形、外曲。[樹]やや横張り性。[来歴]平户市田平町の野生ヤブツバキより選抜、1976年に古里時夫の発見、梶川財基の命名. 発表。写.文/吉岡