Ni-no-kura

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.192, description, p.193, colour photo as ‘Ninokura’: Medium size, deep red, wide, vase-shaped sin­gle of 5 broad, overlapping petals and a broad stamen column with white to pinkish filaments, joined for their lower half, and yellow anthers. Leaves bright, glossy green, round to broad­-ovate, apices blunt acute, margins obscurely serrate. Blooms mid-season to late. Raised by the Yanagihara family beside Lake Irako, Aichi Prefecture. Selected by Harumi Fujiwara, released by Minoru Satō.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.192.　  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.188.  【花】濃紅色、一重、筒咲き、筒しベ、中輪、 2〜5月。【葉】平坦、広楕円、中形。【樹】 立性、横にも伸びる。【来歴】伊良湖の柳 原家に原木のある園芸種のg然実生。佐 藤晴美の発見、佐藤捻の発表。写•文/佐 藤稔。