Honshiratama

Saitama Botanic Gardens, 1960; Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.47: Medium sized, wide campanulate, white single, 5-6 petals, large, wide, creped at apex; compact, stamen column, small, yellow anthers, light, creamy filaments, joined into a tube for half their length. Early flowering. Leaves lanceolate, medium sized to small, tapering to long, acuminate apex, thick, dark green and wavy, depressed vena­tion, sharply but obscurely serrate. Named in Japan by Jisaku Minagawa to distinguish it from other Camellias named ‘Shiratama’. See Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.67 and p.301; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.140 colour photo, p.247, description. This is thought by some to be a synonym for Shiratama from Kasuya, Kamegorō, 1859, Tsubaki Iro­hanayose Irotsuki and Minagawa, 1933, Chinkashū.

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