Sokei-no-yosōi

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.282, colour photo & description: Medium size, soft pink striped deep red, wide campanulate single of 5 petals of irregular size, somewhat reflexed, and a central cylinder of stamens with creamy filaments, joined for their lower third, and yellow anthers. Leaves glossy deep green, elliptic, apices tapering acuminate, margins serrate. Blooms mid-season. Origi­nated in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Collected by Seiichirō Sasai, released by Nobuo Sasai in 1983. Different reading: ‘Sokei-no-yoso’oi’.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.282.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.150.  【花】淡桃地に紅の縦〜小絞り、一 重、筒〜ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、中輪、 1〜3月。【葉】やや長楕円、中形、 中折れ。【樹】立性。【来歴】岡山 県内民家の栽培種。笹井清一郎の採 集、1983年に笹井延夫の発表。写• 文/笹井。