Kifujin

Inazawa Nurseries Wholesale Catalogue, 1986-1987: Soft pink fading to white at petal base. Medium size, single. Vigorous, upright growth. Blooms mid-season. Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.127, colour photo and description: Medium size, soft pink, paler towards the petal base, single with strong stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined at the lower third, and gold anthers. Leaves dark green, broad-lanceo­late, apices acute. Originated in Kurume, Fuku’oka Prefecture, Japan. A seedling of Chūbu-­tsukimiguruma. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.73 with colour photo; English translation p.49. Stated to be a chance seedling of Yukimiguruma, named and released by Kōichi Inoue.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ127.   誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.73.  日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.59. 福岡產. [花]鮮桃色地に底白、一重、椀咲き、筒しベ、中輪、2～4月。[葉]長楕円、平坦。[樹]やや横張り性、強い。[来歴]月見車(中部)の自然実生、1977年に井上功一の命名.発表。写/桐野，文/久冨