Minato-no-sakura

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989. Nihon no Chinka, p.85, colour photo and description: Very small size, pale pink, single with 3 inner petals, large and rounded, and 3 small outer petals. Central stamen cluster, white filaments, pale yellow anthers. Floriferous and fragrant. Leaves small, mid-green, ovate, apices acuminate. Blooms mid-sea­son to late. A seedling of C.japonica Kantō-tsukimiguruma x C.lutchuensis. Originated in Yokohama Prefecture, Japan by Masaomi Murata. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.251 with colour photo; English translation p.176. Parentage stated to be Kantō-hanamiguruma and C.lutchuensis.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.85　  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.251.    日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.274. 神奈川產. [花]淡桃地の外弁に桃色のぼかし、一重、椀咲き、ユキッノキ状しべ、有香、極小輪、多花性、3～4月。[葉]長楕円、小形、薄質。[樹]立性。[来歴]関東月見車xヒメサザン力、1981年に村田祗臣作出.発表。写/桐野、文/編集委員会