Sumidagawa

Itō, Jukyū, 1739, Honzō Hanamaki’e; Yashiro, 1841, Kokon Yōrankō, vol.311; Kasuya, Kamegorō, 1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotruki; Itō, Ko’emon, 1879, Chinkashū: Pure red double with white spots, pot shaped, peony form. See: JCS., 1983, Tsubaki, No.22, p.132; ibid, 1982, No,21, p.111; 1969, No.7, pp.33, 36; Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, p.159 & p.276: Rose coloured, spotted white, large, double with 3-4 rows of long, oval petals, inner ones channelled, reflexed with the central stamens broken into fascicles by small, semi-erect petals. Leaves mid-green, obovate, apex acuminate, base cuneate, margins finely, shallowly serrulate. Originated in Kantō area, Japan. The Sumida River runs 200 kilometers from Kobushiyama to Tokyo Bay, passing through Kumagai. See colour illustrations & descriptions: Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.265, pp.122, 330; Shufu-no-Tomo-­Sha, 1976, Tsubaki to Sazanka, p.36; Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.324; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, pp.81, 224. The name of this camellia has been written with differ­ent first characters which, however, are synonymous.

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