Hizen-hototogisu

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.144, description, p.145, colour photo: Small size, deep red, vase-shaped single of 5 ovate, overlap­ping petals and a central stamen column with pinkish filaments, joined for the lower half. Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves small and narrow, bright green, broad-elliptic, apices acute, margins serrate. Plant habit dwarf and compact. Selected from wild japonicas in Tabira Town, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Discovered by Keizaburō Matsushita in 1981, named by Kichinosuke Aburatani.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.144　. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.214.  【花】濃桃色の一重、筒咲き、筒しベ、 小輪、2〜4月。【葉】長楕円、小形、 波曲。【樹】矮性で枝葉は密。【来 歴】田平町の野生ヤブツバキの選 抜種。1981年に松下慶三郎の発見、 油谷吉之助の命名。写•文/吉岡。