Benisumire

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.200, colour photo, p.201, description: Small size, deep crimson, with a purplish cast, tubular to wide campanulate single, with 5 broad, overlapping, rounded, somewhat reflexed petals of uneven size, and a central stamen column with crimson filaments, joined for the lower half, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season. Leaves small, narrow-elliptic, apices long-tapering acuminate, margins serrulate. Originated in the Toyama Prefecture, Japan. A seedling of Tulip Time x Kon-wabisuke.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.201　. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.231. 【花】紅紫色の一重、肉厚な丸弁、筒 〜ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、小輪、2〜3 月。【葉】長楕円、小〜中形、やや平 坦。【樹】立性。【来歴】紺佗助の 自然実生。1984年に笹井延夫の作 出、1997年の発表。写•文/笹井。