Shima-no-nishiki

Seibundō, Shinkōsha, May, 1973, Garden Life, p.14, colour photo, p.27. description: Medium size, 7-9 cm across, open peony form with about 25 petals and a ground of faint blush pink finely peppered, spotted and streaked crimson. Sta­mens in fascicles amongst erect, wavy, central petals. Leaves olive green, small, even, elliptic, apex acuminate, raised venation, serrations finely uniform. Habit densely spreading. Origi­nated in Sado Island, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Collected, named and released by Susumu Ishizawa in 1967. See: Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.II, 1978, pl.437; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, pp.70, 220; Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.373. Synonym: ‘Okesa-nishiki’.

 保育社 .1974年. 《つばき》安藤芳顕著 ｐ.212.　淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.373.    ガーデンラィフ編集部. 1980. 《原色日本の椿写真集千椿集》. 誠文堂新光社. 写/p.70、文/p.220.  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.329. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.202. 新潟產. [花]淡紅色地に紅色の吹掛け～小絞り、牡丹～獅子咲き、散りしべ、中輪、3～4月。[葉]楕円、中形。[樹]やや立性。[来歴]ユキツバキ系。佐渡の民家の栽培種、1967年に長尾治太郎の命名.発表、別名：おけさ錦。写/大岡、文/萩屋