Koshi-no-haru

Minagawa, 1956, Chinkashū. No description. See colour photo: Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.205, p.104, description, p.150: Leaves broadly lanceolate-elliptic, apices gradually acuminate, margins strongly serrate; petioles hairy. Flow­ers widely cup-shaped, semi-double, rosy pink (Neyron rose 623/1), petals narrow, 17-20, inner petals wrinkled. Stamens with orange-yellow filaments dispersed with some small, erect petals and petaloids. Selected from wild snow camellias on Sōgadake Mountains, Unazuki Town, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Shūhō Kirino. “Koshi” is an old name for an area now included in Niigata Prefecture. See also Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.55, LH top, colour photo and p.214.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.330.　【花】桃色の八重咲き、ユキツバキ状芯、中輪、3〜4月。 【葉】広楕円、中形、平坦。【樹】叢生、強い。【来歴】東蒲原 郡津川町の民家の栽培種。1958年に長尾次太郎の命名•発 表。文/大岡。