Hori-no-uchi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.194, 195, colour photo and description: Small size, dark red, vase shaped single, with 5 broad, embracing petals which do not open flat, and a central stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for the lower third, and large, yellow anthers, Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves bright green, thick and flat, elliptic. A wild japonica found in a plant market in Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Tokihiro Kōno in 1977.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.194.　 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、筒咲き、筒しベ、小輪、 2〜3月。【葉】楕円、大形。【樹】立性、 強い。【来歴】松山市内の植木市で見出 されたヤブツバキ。1977年に河野時寛の 命名•発表。写/田島、文/河野。