Muon-no-yuki

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, pp.74, 75, colour photo and description: Small size, soft, apricot pink, wide, campanulate single, with 5-6 wide, overlapping, somewhat reflexed petals and a central stamen column with bright yellow anthers, and ivory filaments, joined for the lower half. Blooms early to mid-season. Leaves dark green, elliptic, apices long acuminate, margins serrate. Selected from wild japonicas in Hamada City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Kōsaku Masadu in 1980.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.74.　誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.257.     日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.52. 島根產. [花]極淡桃色、一重、抱え～筒咲き、肉厚、筒しベ、小輪、12～3月。[葉]卵状楕円、中形、外曲。[樹]横張り性。[来歴]浜田市妙智寺の野生ヤブツバキより選抜、1980年に増田耕作の命名.発表。写/出雲村田、文/長橋