Fusen'in-aka-yabu

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.217, colour photo and description: Small size, bright red, wide, campanulate single with 5 irregular, pointed petals and a central stamen column, pinched in at the apex, with white filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season. Leaves long, flat green, elliptic, apices tapering acuminate, margins serrate. Plant habit: Branches spreading horizontally. Selected from wild japonicas growing at Fusen’in Temple, Saga City, Japan. Named and released by Michiyo Izumi in 1982.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.226. 【花】朱紅色の一重、剣弁状の筒咲き、筒しベ、小輪、1〜3 月。【葉】長楕円、小形。【樹】やや横張り性、強い。【来歴】 佐賀市富泉院のヤブツバキから選抜。1982年に泉ミチヨの 命名•発表。写•文/久富。