Daikichi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.212 colour photo, p.213, description: Medium size, vivid crimson, wide campanulate single with 7 wide, crinkled, reflexed petals, and a central stamen column, pinched in at top, pale yellow to pinkish filaments, joined for the lower half, and yellow anthers. Blooms early to mid-season. Leaves bright green, broad elliptic, margins obscurely serrate. The original tree is growing in Kagamihara City, Gifu Prefecture, history obscure. Named by Nagaharu Niwa in 1987, released by Gifu Camellia Club.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.212.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.152. 【花】濃ぃ鮮紅色の一重、ラッパ〜盃状咲 き、やや短ぃ筒しベ、中輪、12〜3月。 【葉】広楕円、中形。【樹】立性。【来歴】 原木は各務原市にあるが、来歴は不明。19 87年に丹羽長春の命名、発表は「岐阜椿 会」写/岐阜椿会、文/丹羽。