Benitsukasa

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.178, description, p.179, colour photo: Small size, deep red, tubular single with large, central column of stamens with yellow anthers. Blooms early to mid-season. Leaves deep, glossy green, ovate, apices acute, margins serrulate. Selected from wild camellias in Itsuki-mura, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Mikio Akashi in 1985.

講談社　1975年　《現代椿集》 P.369.　淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.178　. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.233.【花】濃紅色の一重、筒咲き、筒しベ、小輪、11〜3月。【葉】 長楕円、中形。【樹】やや横張り性。【来歴】熊本県•五木 村のヤブツバキから選抜。1985年に赤司已喜雄の命名•発 表。写•文/久富。