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Kifukurin-benten

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CountryJapan

Year Published/Registered1859

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia rusticana 'Kifukurin-benten'

Chinese Name

Japanese Name:黄覆輪弁天 きふくりんべんてん

Meaning:Yellow bordered "Benten"

Synonym

Fukurin-benten  Yūsuke Sakata & Ken-ichi Arisumi, 1983, International Camellia Journal, No.15, p.20: A small size, red, single with a white border and variegated leaves. Synonym for Kifukurin-benten.

Kifuku-benten  Tateyama Nursery List, 1957.Different reading for Kifukurin-benten.

Kifukwin-benten  Nuccio’s Nurseries Catalogue, 1982-1983, p.26. Corruption of Japanese name Kifukurin-benten.

Kihukurin-benten  Watanabe, 1960, Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki Tokushū, No,1, p,57.Different reading for Kifukurin-benten.

Luteo-variegata  Joshua Condor, 1893, Landscape Gardening in Japan, p.117. Synonym for Kifukurin-benten.

Description

» English Description

Kasuya, Kamegorō, 1859, Tsubaki Iro­hanayose Irotsuki in section on variegated leaves; Itō, Ko’emon,1879, Chinkashū: Rose-red, small, single with leaves having pale yellow variegation. For colour photos see: Tuyama, 1966, Camel­lia Cultivars of Japan, pl.217; Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.446; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.42; Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.154, 155; Macoboy, 1981, The Colour Dictionary of Camellias, p.96: Leaves dark green with pale yellow var­iegation and distorted margins, petiole hirsute. Flower small, single, red. Blooms mid-season to late. Compact and upright plant. Different readings: ‘Kifuku-benten’, ‘Kihuku-benten’. Syn­onym: ‘Benten’, ‘Lutea Variegata’. Local name in Niigata: ‘Hoshi-sekai’. Originated in Kantō area, Japan.

» Japanese Description

講談社 1975年 《現代椿集》 P.359. 保育社 .1974. 《つばき》安藤芳顕著 p.214.  文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.102.   淡交社.1989. 《日本の椿花》..154  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.215. 江戸產. [花]桃紅色、一重、小輪、4月。[葉]不定形の黄覆輪錦葉。[樹]横張り性、やや弱い。[来歴]ユキツバキ系。1859年の「椿伊呂波名寄色附」に載る、別名:星世界。写/植村、文/編集委員会

Flower

Flower Size6-8 cm

Blooming Season Japan

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