Shirayuri

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.20, description, p.21, colour photo: Small to medium size, white, wide campanulate single with 5 regular, rounded, reflexed, slightly emarginate petals and a narrow stamen column with white fila­ments, joined for their lower third, and yellow anthers. Blooms mid-season. Leaves bright green, elliptic, apices acute, margins bluntly serrate. Selected from wild japonicas growing in Hirado City, Nagasaki Pre­fecture, Japan. Discovered and named by Kenji Maeda in 1981. Different reading: ‘Shiroyuri’.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.20  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.133.  長崎・平戸產. [花]白、一重、筒～ラッパ咲き、筒しべ、小～中輪、1～4月。[葉]濃緑色、小形。[樹]横張り性、[来歴]平戸産のヤブツバキから採集した品種。写/神園、文/北川