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Id：ICR-6787
Country：Japan
Year Published/Registered：1912
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
AGM Type：
Scientific Name：Camellia 'Hakutsuru'
Species/Combination：Higo
Chinese Name：
Japanese Name：白鶴 はくつる
Meaning：White crane
Synonym：
B. 14
Hume, 1947, American Camellia Yearbook, p.129. Designation for Hakutsuru.
Fourteen B
Fendig, 1953, American Camellia Catalogue. Synonym for Hakutsuru.
Hakkaku-higo
Synonym for Hakutsuru. (Higo).
Hakukaku
(White Crane), (Higo), Tamura, 1956, Higotsubaki Shinkaki.Different reading for Hakutsuru.
Haku-Tsura
Dodd Nursery Catalogue, 1946-1947, p.5. Corruption of Japanese name Hakutsuru.
Higo-hakkaku
Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.210 with colour photo; English translation p.146. Name changed by the Higo Society from ‘Hakkaku’ to Hakutsuru.
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Japanese White
Vanderbilt, 1941, Camellia Research, II, p.3. Synonym for Hakutsuru.
Shirazuru
Different reading for Hakutsuru.
Shirotsuru
Different reading for ‘Hatsutsuru’ and synonym for ‘Hakutsuru’.
White Crane
Magnolia Gardens and Nursery Catalogue, 1945-1946. Synonym for Hakutsuru.
White Perfection I
Vanderbilt, 1941, Camellia Research, II, p.8. Synonym for Hakutsuru.
White Stork
Fruitland Nursery Catalogue, 1946-1947, p.28. Synonym for Hakutsuru.
» English Description
Taniguchi, 1912, Chinka Kyōkan: Pure white. Very large. Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.18, p.9, description, p.90: Higo camellia bearing pure white flowers. Leaves small and flat. Petals spreading horizontally from the base, stamens widely opened and arranged in a ring. Leaves elliptic; apex cuspidately acute; petioles glabrous. Petals 7-9, undulate. Style a little shorter than the stamens, divided into 3-4 arms. Flowers late. The characters of the name of this cultivar are the same as Hakkaku, but to avoid confusion the Higo Camellia Society of Japan officially changed the reading to Hakutsuru for the Higo cultivar. Originated in Kumamoto, Japan. See, Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.112 colour photo as ‘Hakukaku’. Adachi, 1960, Camellia. Its Appreciation and Artistic Arrangement, pp.63, 70 as ‘Haku-kaku’. Other readings: ‘Shirazuru’, ‘Hakukaku-higo’, ‘Hakkaku-higo’. Synonyms: ‘White Crane’, ‘White Stork’. Received an RHS., “Award of Merit” in 1968.
