Heirinji-nigō

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.96, colour photo and description: Small size, pale peach pink, open campanulate single, with 5 broad, overlapping petals and a wide, central stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for the lower half, and yellow anthers. Leaves narrow-ovate, apices acute, margins obscurely ser­rate. Orignated in the Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.229 with colour photo; English translation p.160. Discovered by Katsusuke Ōta at a plant producing firm in Angyō, Kawaguchi City. Named and released by Yoshizawa Chinju’en Nursery around 1975.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.96.　. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.229. 【花】淡桃色の一重、筒しベ、中形、 平林寺より小輪で筒長、11〜4月。【葉】長楕円、中形。【樹】立性、強 い。【来歴】川口市安行の植木生産 畑で太田克典が発見、1975年頃に吉 沢椿樹園の命名•発表。写•文/太 田