Tōsui

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.177 with colour photo; English translation p.123. Small, pale pink with pink shading in outer petals, wrinkled and creped round petals, tubular single, cylindrical stamen column. Flowers early to mid-season. Leaves elliptic, medium size, somewhat flat. Upright, vigorous growth. A natural seedling of Hatsukari. Originated by Nobuo Sasai in 1979, released in 1997. From Okayama Prefecture.

誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.177. 【花】淡桃地に外弁紅ぼかしの一重、しわ や縮れの多ぃ丸弁、筒咲き、筒しベ、小輪、 10〜3月。【葉】楕円、中形、やや平坦。【樹】 立性、強ぃ。【来歴】初雁の自然実生。1979 年に笹井延夫の作出、1997年の発表。写• 文/笹井。