Ikune-musume

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.28 with colour photo; English translation p.17. White mottles on deep pink ground. A medium size, tubular to sake cup-shaped single with cylindrical stamens. Flowers mid-season. Leaves elliptic to narrow-elliptic. Upright but weak growth. A virus variegated form of a seedling of Yukimiguruma, named and released by Totsurō Nakamura in 1994. From Tokyo.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.28.　【花】濃桃地に白斑、一重、筒〜盃状咲き、筒しベ、中輪、3〜 4月。【葉】楕円〜長楕円、中形。【樹】立性、弱い。【来歴】 雪見車の自然実生に白斑を移植したもの。1994年に仲村訥 ¹郎の命名•発表。写•文/仲村。