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Kitsuregawa

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Id:ICR-9803

CountryJapan

Year Published/Registered1957

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Kitsuregawa'

Chinese Name

Japanese Name:木連川 きづれがわ

Meaning:Kizure river

Synonym

Kizuregawa  Tateyama Nursery Catalogue, 1957.Different reading for Kitsuregawa.

Kizuregawa. (Kizure River)  (C.japonica), Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.71 with colour photo; English translation p.47. Medium size, palest pink, semi-double, poor stamens. Flowers mid-season to late. Leaves oblong, small, plicate along the midrib. Upright growth. A seedling of Miyakadori, originated by Jisuke Minagawa, released in Chinkashū in 1956, named after the Kizure River in Tochigi Prefecture. From Saitama Prefecture.Different reading for Kitsuregawa.

Description

» English Description

Minagawa, 1957, Chinkashū: Pale pink, semi-double. See colour photos: Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.93; Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.95, p.48, description, p.114 as ‘Kitsure-gawa’: Leaves lanceolate-elliptic to narrowly elliptic, a little waved, venation impressed. Flowers vase-shaped, semi-double, pale pink (Neyron Rose 633/3) in colour. Petals slightly channelled, with irregular, distorted inner petals and petaloids, intermixed with a few stamens. Flowers mid-season. Originated in the Minagawa Camellia Gardens, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. A seedling of Miyakodori. Different reading: ‘Kizuregawa’, ‘Mokuregawa’. See colour photos and descriptions: Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.220, p.323, and Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, pp.42 , 209, both as ‘Kizuregawa’.

» Japanese Description

講談社 1975年 《現代椿集》 P.323 文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.101.  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.p.71. 花】極淡桃色、重ねの少ない八重、しべは貧弱、中輪、3〜4月。【葉】長楕円、小形、中折。【樹】立性。【来歴】都鳥の実生。皆川治助が作出、1956年の「椿花集」に発表、名は栃木県の喜連川に由来。写/村内、文/編集委員会。



Flower

Flower Size8-10 cm

Blooming Season Japan

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