Nami-no-hana

Hagiya, 1967, Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki Tokushū, No.8, p.18, illustration: Medium sized, 8-9 cm across x 4 cm deep, light pink, incom­plete double, peony form with fascicles of about 180 stamens amongst erect and twisted, inner petals, 5 large, outer petals, 50 inner petals and about 20 petaloids; filaments pale yellow. Col­lected from Mizuhara Machi, Kita-kanbara-gun, Niigata Prefecture, Japan in 1958 by Susumu Ishizawa. Named and released by Kaoru Hagiya in 1959. See: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.235. First character different.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.184.  【花】白色の八重、牡丹咲き、丸形、肉厚、ユキツバキ状芯、割りしベ、中輪、3〜4月。【葉】やや楕円、中形、平坦。【樹】叢生、強い。【来歴】北蒲原郡水原町の民家の栽培種。石沢進の発見、1959年に萩屋薰の命名•発表。写/植村、文/大岡。