Chūbu-kaguyahime

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.279. colour photo and description: Medium size, soft pink with red splashes, campan­ulate single with 6 petals, and a central stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms early to mid-season. Leaves deep green, broad-elliptic, apices abrupt acute, margins shallowly to obscurely serrate. Originated in the Chūbu District, Japan. A seedling of Tatsuta-nishiki.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ279.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.55. 【花】極淡桃地に紅の大小縦絞りの 一重、肉厚、筒咲き、筒しベの小輪、 12〜3月。【葉】広楕円、中形、平坦。 【樹】やや立性、やや強い。【来歴】 竜田錦のg然実生。1980年に小崎敏 章の作出•発表。写/桐野、文/内藤。