Sangokaku

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.205, colour photo and description: Large size, deep red, bowl-shaped single with 5 long, strap-like, channelled and emarginate petals, opening star-shaped and a central stamen cylinder with pinkish filaments, joined for the lower half, and golden anthers. Leaves deep green, elliptic, apices acute, margins serrulate. Blooms early to mid-season. Originated by Ogawa in Izu Ohshima, Japan, 1975. A natural seedling of Brian. Originated and named by Takeo Ogawa in 1975.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.205.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.116. 【花】濃紅色の一重、樋状弁、長いラ ッパ咲き、筒しベ、子房有毛、大輪、 1〜4月。【葉】長楕円形。【樹】 やや横張り性。【来歴】ブライアン の自然実生。1975に尾川武雄の作 出•命名。写•文/尾川。