Midaregami

Hagiya, 1967, Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki, Tokushū, No.8. See also Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.184: Medium sized, 8-9 cm across, red, occasionally with white streaks, peony form with one row of 11 large, guard petals, long and slender, emarginate, the centre about 50 confused, twisted and erect, small, irregular petals with about 70 stamens intermingled. Leaves, dark green, long-ovate, 9 cm. long. Col­lected from Honai Village, Kita-kanbara Gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Resembles Beni-­arashi. See also Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, p.146, colour photo. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.250 with colour photo; English translation p.175. Medium size, red, peony to lion form, stamens and petaloids mixed at the centre. Flowers mid-season to late. Leaves elliptic, medium size, recurved. Cespitose, of rusticana parentage. A cultivar at a private family in Kita-kanbara District. Collected by Susumu Ishizawa, named and released by Kaoru Hagiya in 1967. From Niigata Prefecture.

講談社　1975年　《現代椿集》 P.318.　  文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.220.    誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.250. 【花】紅色の牡丹〜獅子咲き、中心は 雄芯と旗弁が混在、中輪、3〜4月。 【葉】楕円、中形、反曲。【樹】叢生、 ユキ系。【来歴】北蒲原郡の民家の 栽培種。石沢進の採集、1967年に萩屋 薰の命名•発表。写/大岡、文/萩屋。