Chitose (rusticana)

Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.229: Pale pink, peony form to formal double, with about 20 thick, fleshy petals, gathered up in waves with stamens intermingled, filaments yellow. Size, medium large; mid-season flowering. Leaves, medium size, elliptic, apex acute, prominently serrate, petioles hirsute. Plant habit, side spreading, variable. Of snow camellia lineage, originated in Higashi Kubiki-gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan.