Hōhaku

Williams & Thompson, 1950, American Camellia Yearbook, p.39 as ‘Ho-haku’: Pink streaked with dark, red lines. Large peony form. Taken from a list of 113 camellias imported in 1930 from Japan by F.M. Uyematsu, Star Nursery, California, USA. A different reading of the characters is “Hōjiro” but the present Hōjiro in Japan is a light pink sin­gle. The translation “white cheek” depends on the first character which is not certain for the imported camellia.