Kisayamahime

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.70 with colour photo; English translation p.46. Small, pink semi-double, wrinkled and crinkled petals, tubular stamen cylinder. Flowers mid-season to late. Leaves oblong, small, slightly recurved. Upright, weak growth. Selected from a wild japonica community around the precincts of Shōtōzan by a preist of Konpira Shrine, released by the Kagawa Branch of the JCS in 1997. From Kagawa Prefecture.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.70. 【花】桃色の八重、しわや縮れが多い、筒しベ、 小輪、3〜4月。【葉】長楕円、小形、やや外 曲。【樹】立性、弱い。【来歴】象頭山神域の 野生ツバキ群中より金毘羅宮神職が選抜• 命名。1997年に香川支部が発表。写•文/今雪 史