Innoshima

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.194, colour photo and description: Medium size, lustrous, dark red, open, campanulate single, with 5 broad, rounded, overlapping petals and a central stamen cylinder with red filaments, joined for the lower third, and golden anthers. Blooms early to late. Leaves mid-green, oblanceolate to nar­row-elliptic, apices long tapering acuminate, margins serrulate. Originated in the Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan by a private family on In-no-shima Island. Collected by Seichiro Sasai, named and released by Nobuo Sasai in 1978..

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.35. 【花】濃紅色の一重、肉厚、丸弁、椀咲き、筒しベ、中輪、12〜4月。【葉】やや楕円、中形。【樹】やや立性、強い。【来歴】広島県内の民家の栽培種より選抜。笹井清一郎の採集、1978年笹井延夫の発表。写•文/笹井。