Hisayo-shibori

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.240, colour photo and description: Medium size, dark red, with white patches, occasionally with white moire, campanulate single with 5 rounded, embracing petals and a central stamen cylin­der with pinkish filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Late flowering. Leaves strong, bright green, broad lanceolate, apices tapering acute, margins shallowly serrate. Originated in Kurume, Fuku’oka Prefecture, Japan. Resembles: Shokkō, Kurume-shokkō.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.240　. 久留米產. [花]濃紅地に白斑の入る一重、筒咲き、筒しべの中輪、3～4月。鮮やかな紅白の花が、整った艶葉に映えて輝くような美しさ。雲状斑が多いが、また横杢斑が入ることもある。[葉]艶葉。[樹]やや立性で枝が粗い　　[来歴]　　　。　　文/久富・写真/神園