Homura

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.228, colour photo and description: Medium size, dark red, open, saucer-shaped single with 7 broad, rounded, crinkled, emarginate petals and a broad, stamen group with red filaments and golden anthers. Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves mid-green, broad-ovate to ovate, apices acute, margins ser­rulate. Selected from natural seedlings on Izu Ōshima. Named and released by Tokihiro Kōno around 1980.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.228.　 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.322.  【花】暗紅色の一重、筒〜椀咲き、太い筒しベ、花糸は紅色、 中輪、2〜3月。【葉】楕円〜卵状、中形、やや波曲。 樹】立〜横張り性、強い。【来歴】伊豆大島の自然実生の 抜種。1980年頃に河野時寛の命名•発表。文/田島。