Midori-no-shizuku

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.250 with colour photo; English translation p.176. Small, vermilion, tubular to cup-shaped single, cylindrical stamen column. Flowers mid-season. Leaves narrowly elliptic, small. Upright to spreading growth. A cultivar at the Prefectural Greenery Centre, considered to be a natural seedling. Named and released by Akinori Tajima in 1995. From Ehime Prefecture.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.250. 【花】鮮紅色の一重、筒〜抱え咲き、 筒しベ、小輪、2〜3月。【葉】長楕 円、小形。【樹】立〜横張り性。【来 歴】県立緑化センターの栽培種。自 然実生と推定される。1995年に田島 明典の命名.発表。写•文/田島。