Kosugata

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.153, colour photo and description: Small size, pink with deep pink margins with colour reduced to faint pink at the flower centre, single with 5 broad petals with incurved lateral margins on some petals, and a short, central stamen cluster with yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season. Leaves shining, bright green, obovate, apices acuminate, margins serrate. Originated in the Okayama Prefecture, Japan. A seedling of Tulip Time. Named and released by Nobuo Sasai in 1982.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.153　   誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.100. 【花】桃紅地の底白、一重、キキョウ咲き、 短い筒しベ、小輪、1〜3月。【葉】長楕 円、小形。【樹】立性、強い、生長は遅い。 【来歴】チューリップタイムの自然実生。 1982年に笹井延夫の命名•発表。写•文/ 笹井