Fugaku-no-suzume

Inazawa, Nursery Co. Ltd. Catalogue, 1986-198, p.9, A-467: Clear, peach pink, campanulate single. Originated in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.130, colour photo and descrip­tion: Small size, pink, tubular to campanulate single with 5 broad, rounded, reflexed, overlap­ping petals and a central stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Leaves mid-green, elliptic, apices long acuminate, margins serrate. Seedling of Fukumuzume. Released by Yūgi Imamura in 1970. Blooms mid-season to late. Synonym: Yūbi’ a local name for this cultivar.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.130.　 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.221. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.59. 福岡產. [花]桃色、一重、長筒咲き、筒しベ、弁端ほど色が薄い、小輪、1～4月。[葉]長楕円、小形。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]福娘の自然実生、1970年に今村優司の発表。写.文/久冨