Haru-no-kizashi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.81, colour photo and description: Medium size, pale, blush pink, with white blotches, wide cam­panulate single, with 6 broad, rounded, emarginate petals with crinkled margins and a central stamen cylinder, with white filament, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves deep green, elliptic, flat, apices acuminate. Originated in the Chūbu District, Japan. A chance seedling, originated and released by Tsunehiro Miyazaki in 1980.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.81.　  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.205.  【花】極淡桃色、一重、筒〜ラッパ咲き、筒 しべ、中輪、12〜3月。【葉】楕円、中形、 平坦。【樹】立性、強い。【来歴】親不明 の自然実生。1980年に宮崎恒弘の作出• 命名。写/内藤、文/宮崎。