Hizen-hakubi

JCS., 1989, Japan Camellia, No.30, p.13, colour photo: Small size, compact, single with 5 smooth, rounded, entire petals, opening cup-shaped, with stamens in a compact, central cylinder, anthers yellow, filaments white, joined for the lower half. Flowers mid-season. Leaves mid-green, boad-elliptic, margins shallowly serrate. See Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.26, colour photo. Selected from wild japonicas growing in Tabira Town, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Discovered by Tabira Camellia Club in 1980, named and released by Tadaichirō Ogawa. Hizen is the old name for part of Nagasaki and Saga Prefectures.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.26　.誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.214. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.18. 長崎產. [花]白、一重、肉厚、椀咲き、筒しベ、小輪、2～4月。[葉]長楕円、中形、平坦。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]平戸市田平町の野生ヤブツバキより選抜、1980年に旧田平町つばき会の発見、小川唯一郎の命名.発表。写.文/吉岡