Koshoro

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.267, colour photo and description: Medium size, pale pink, fading to palest blush at edge, rare deep pink stripe, wide, campanulate single with 5 broad, rounded, emarginate, reflexed petals and a slen­der stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for lower third and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season to late. Leaves dark green, elliptic, apices acuminate, margins sharply serrate. Originated in a wild population in Hirado City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. Discovered by Tsukasa Isomoto in 1978, named by Kichinosuke Aburatani. “Koshoro” was the name of a leg­endary heroine from Hirado City.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.267     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.99. 【花】淡桃地に紅の縦絞りがわずか に入る白覆輪、一重、ラッパ咲き、筒 しべ、中輪、1〜4月。【葉】長楕円 形、中形。【樹】横張り性、強い。【来 歴】平戸市の野生ヤブツバキ選抜 種。1978年に磯本司の発見、油谷吉之助の命名。写•文/吉岡。