Echizen-bosetsu

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.301, colour photo and description: Large size, faint, peach pink, semi-double with 2-3 rows of crinkled and thick petals and a central stamen cluster with 2-3 small, erect petals inter­mixed. Blooms mid-season. Leaves green, elliptic to broad-elliptic, flat, apices acuminate. Orig­inated in Echizen-chō, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Raised by a private family in Obama City, named by Taksumi Hiyama in 1972, released by Tokuji Ōka.

 淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.301    誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.41.　【花】極薄桃色の牡丹咲き、肉厚、割 しべ、中輪、4月。【葉】広楕円、中 形、平坦。【樹】立性、強い。【来歴】 福井県小浜市の民家の栽培種。1972 年に飛山嘉澄の命名、大岡徳治の発 表。写•文/大岡。