Daihōkan

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.252, description, p.253, colour photo: Medium size, blush pink ground, finely peppered with red, wide campanulate single, with 5 broad, rounded, overlapping, crinkled and reflexed petals, and a broad central stamen cylinder with creamy filaments, joined for the lower third, and dark yellow anthers. Blooms very early to mid-season. Leaves dark green, broad ovate, apices abruptly blunt-acute, margins serrate. Originated in the Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Believed to be a seedling of Kamo-honnami.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.154. 【花】白にちかい桃色地に紅の吹掛け絞り。一重、椀咲き、輪 芯、中輪、10〜3月。【葉】広楕円、大形。【樹】立性。【来歴】 不明であるが、岐阜市内の民家に現存する。1984年に丹羽長 春の命名•発表は「岐阜椿会」。写/岐阜椿会、文/丹羽。