Hakuju

Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.II, 1978, pl.323, description, p.246: A small, campanulate, single white of 6-7 petals with a short, slightly irregu­lar column of stamens with light yellow anthers and white filaments. Leaves, obovate, mid-­green; apex tapering acuminate; margins shallowly serrate. Blooms mid-season to late. A wild japonica from the Kono’e family, Gosho, Kyōto City, Japan. Selected by Motoharu Miyazawa in 1963, named by Zenkei Shibayama in 1978. See, Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.29. Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.111 colour photo. This birthday is specially celebrated in Japan.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.29　 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.192.  日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.25. 京都產. [花]白、一重、筒咲き、筒しベ、肉厚、中輪、2～4月。[葉]やや楕円、中形[。樹]立性。[来歴]京都御所外苑.旧近衛邸庭園のヤブツバキから1963年に宮沢基治が選抜、紫山全慶の命名、1978年の発表。写/桐野、文/山ロ三