Nanpū (hybrid)

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.86, description, p.87, colour photo: Small size, pale pink, higo-like single, opening flat with 6-7 emarginate, ruffled, overlapping petals and a large, central burst of numerous stamens with small, golden anthers. Leaves mid-green, lanceolate-elliptic, apices blunt acuminate, margins serrate. Fragrant. Originated in the Niigata Prefecture, Japan as a hybrid between C.rusticana Kaonajimi x C.lutchuensis. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.186 with colour photo; English translation p.129. White, or pink changing to white. Parentage stated to be C.saluenensis x C.lutchuensis. Originated and released by Kaoru Hagiya.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.86.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.186.　【花】白〜移り白の一重、抱え咲き、筒し ベ、極小輪、芳香性あり、3〜4月。【葉】 楕円、極小形、やや先端が反曲。【樹】株 立ちで普通。【来歴】サルウィンツバキ とヒメサザン力の交雑種。作出および命 名は萩屋薰。写/大岡、文/萩屋。