Miyake-kozakura

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka p.121, colour photo, p.120. description: Medium size, pale pink, open, cup-shaped single of 5 rounded emarginate petals with some crinkling at their apex, and central stamen cylinder with white filaments, joined for the lower half, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season. Leaves dark green, lanceolate, apices long-acuminate, recurved, margins shallowly serrulate. Selected from wild japonicas growing on Miyake Island, Japan. Named by Noboru Nagahama in 1985, released by Takeo Ogawa.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.120　 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.253. 【花】明るい桃色の一重、筒〜ラッパ 咲き、筒しベ、中輪、1〜4月。【葉】 楕円、中形。【樹】立性、強い。【来歴】 三宅島の野生ヤブツバキの選抜種。 1985年に長浜昇の命名、尾川武雄の 発表。写•文/尾川。