Oki-no-ishi (Itō)

Itō, Ko’emon, 1879, Chinkashū: White striped deep pink, semi-double, large, 10 cm. across with 16-18 petals in 3-4 rows and a small cylindrical to somewhat irregular stamen cluster. Leaves dark green, flat, lanceolate to long-ovate, apex long-acute to caudate, bluntly, finely serrulate. Originated in Japan. Corruption of the Japanese name: ‘Oki-no-ise’. Synonym: ‘Oki-no-ishi-Tokyo’. For colour photos & descriptions see: Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.177 & p.308; Satō, 1975, Chūbu no Tsubaki, p.99; Ency­clopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.II, 1978, pl.409; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, pp.27, 204. A posible sport of the former Oki-no-ishi.