Kaga-beni-shidare

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.188, colour photo and description: Medium size, deep red, wide campanulate single with 5 broad, emarginate, overlapping petals, and a central stamen cylinder with pink filaments, joined for the lower third, and golden anthers. Leaves mid-green, elliptic, apices acuminate, recurved, margins serrate. Blooms mid-season to late. Plant habit willowy and weeping. Origi­nated in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.55 with colour photo; English translation p.36. Named and released by Tokuji Ōoku in 1975.

 淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.188.    誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.55. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.73. 石川產. [花]紅色、一重、筒～ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、小輪、3～4月。[葉]長楕円、中形、波曲。[樹]横張り性、枝垂れ性、強い。[来歴]加賀しだれの自然実生、1975年に大岡徳治の命名.発表。写.文/大岡