Senbazuru

JCS., Jan. 1973, Tsubaki, No. 12, colour photo No.7, p.3, description, p.10: Small, 5-6 cm across, light to dark red, irregular, open peony to semi-double. Outer petals, about 10, oblong, emarginate, are in two rows. In the centre from a short stamen cluster of about 30 to a mixture of stamens, petaloids and small, erect petals, twisted and folded in various degrees, filaments yellow. Leaves dull green, ovate-elliptic, apex acute, margins sharply, shallowly serrate; petioles 7-8 mm long hirsute. Flowers early to mid-season. The tree is low growing and compact; heavy flowering. Originated in Yamamoto, Ojiya City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Collected by Susumu Ishizawa, named and released by Kaoru Hagiya in 1973. See: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, p.84, colour photo. Resembles Aiaigasa, but smaller in size and paler in colour.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.149. 【花】桃紅色の八重〜唐子〜牡丹〜 二段咲きと変化しやすい、小輪、2 〜3月。【葉】倒卵、小形。【樹】叢 生、矮性、ユキ系。【来歴】小千谷市 の民家の栽培種。石沢進採集、1973 年、萩屋薰の命名、発表。写/大岡、文 /萩屋