Hohoemi

Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.140, colour plate, p.247, description: Small. bright red single, opening cup-shaped with compact, yellow stamen cluster. Flowers mid-season. Leaves broad-ovate, blunt acute apex, margins finely serrate. Collected in Kariba-gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan by Susumu Ishizawa, named and released by Kaoru Hagiya in 1969.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.242. 【花】濃紅色の一重、平開咲き、筒し ベ、小輪、3〜4月。【葉】長楕円、中 形、反曲。【樹】叢生、ユキ系。【来歴】 刈羽郡の民家の栽培種。石沢進の採 集、1969年に萩屋薰の命名•発表。写 /植村、文/萩屋。