Seisui

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.144 with colour photo; English translation p.98. Medium size, red stripes on white ground, single, cupped form as it opens. Flowers early to late. Leaves ovate, medium size. Upright growth, lower branches weeping. A chance seedling of Hatsu-arashi, named after the painter, Seisui Morigami. Released by Taneo Okada in 1975. From Osaka.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.144. 【花】白地に紅縦絞り、一重、中輪、咲 始めは抱え咲き、10〜4月。【葉】 倒卵、中形。【樹】立性、下枝は枝垂 れる。【来歴】初嵐の樹下_然実生。 画家の森上青水の命名、1975年に岡 田種雄の発表。写/菜畑、文/岡田