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Id：ICR-5791
Country：Japan
Year Published/Registered：1933
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
AGM Type：
Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Furansujiro'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
Chinese Name：
Japanese Name：フランス白 ふらんすじろ
Meaning：French white
Synonym：
Franso Jiro
Fendig, 1953, American Camellia Catalogue. Corruption of the Japanese name Furansujiro.
French Double
Domoto Nursery catalogue, 1939. Synonym for Furansujiro.
French White
Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, p.103. Synonym for Furansujiro.
Furan-su-shior
Fendig, 1953, American Camellia Catalogue. Corruption of the Japanese name Furansujiro.
Furansushiro
Different reading for Furansujiro.
Huransu-jiro
Watanabe, 1960, Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki Tokushū, No.1, p.55Different reading for Furansujiro.
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Husanoshiro
Anderson Camellia Nursery Catalogue, 1967, p.25. Corruption of the Japanese name Furansujiro.
Magnoliaeflora Alba 2
The Pacific Camellia Society, 1946, Camellia Nomenclature. p.23. Orthographic error for ‘Magnoliiflora Alba 2’. Synonym for Furansujiro.
France-jiro
Latest Illustrated Book of Japanese Camellias, (Camellias of Japan), 2010, p.44 with colour photo; Synonym for Furansujiro.
Furansu-jiro
Common different spelling for 'Furansujiro'
仏蘭西白
Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan p.103,
» English Description
Minagawa, 1933, Chinkashū; Wada, 1941, Japanese Garden Treasures, p.28: Autumn flowering form of Shiragiku; pure white, fully double, the type of ‘Purity’. See colour photo & description, No.61, p.31, Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan and pl.413, p.173 & 353, Encyclopedia of Camellis in Colour, vol.I, 1972; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.133 & 245.: Flowers formal double, white, numerous petals; imbricated, convex or keeled on inner surface. Early flowering. Plant habit dense and bushy. Leaves broad-obovate to long-ovate, apices acuminate, recurved, margins wavy finely serrate, venation impressed. Different reading: ‘Furansushiro’, ‘Huransu-jiro’. Synonyms: ‘French White’, ‘French Double’. Similar to Kagiri, ‘Nankinjiro’ and Hasumijiro. Corruptions of name: ‘Furan-su-shior’, ‘Furanso Jiro’, ‘Husanoshiro’. Originated in the Kantō area, Japan.
