Jōshōkōji-yabu-tsubaki

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.229, colour photo and description: Small size, dark red, single, with 5 shiny rounded petals, somewhat uneven, with a central stamen column, reddish filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves small, deep green, nar­rowly lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, apices long, tapering acuminate, margins serrate. Origi­nated in the Jōshōkōji Temple, Kyōto, Japan. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.129 with colour photo; English translation p.88.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.229      誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.129.  【花】暗紅色の一重、筒〜ラッパ咲き、筒 しべ、小輪、2〜4月。【葉】楕円、小形、 波曲。【樹】立性、枝は細く密生。【来歴】 京都•常照皇寺に原木がある。1989年の 発表。写•文/山ロ三。