Kotomusume

Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.57, colour photo, p.215, description: Medium size, red, single of cupped form, 5-6 petals, with central, stamen column, golden anthers, pinkish filaments. Leaves elliptic, green, apex acute, base cuneate, mar­gins shallowly serrulate. Selected from a wild japonica community in the precincts of Konpira Shrine in Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Saneichi Koyama in 1972.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.103. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.136. 香川產. [花]濃紅色地に白斑が入る、一重、筒～ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、中輪、2～3月。[葉]広楕円、中形、やや波曲。[樹]性、強い。[来歴]金刀比羅宮神域の野生ツバキより選抜、1972年に小山実命名.発表。写/地下、文/今雪哲