Tabaruzaka

Izu Ōshima, 1980, Hawaii Botanical Garden List, p.13. No description. Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.288, colour photo & description: Large size, soft pink with deeper pink and red streaks and splashes, single with 7 broad, over­lapping, waved petals, opening flat and a central, spreading burst of numerous, yellow sta­mens. Leaves deep green, elliptic, apices tapering acuminate, margins serrulate. Blooms mid-season to late. Originated in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. A sport of Mikuni-no­-homare or its sport parent, Higo-kyō-nishiki. Collected near Tabaruzaka, Kumamoto. Named and released by Tsugio Ōta in 1985.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.288.     誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.326. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.251. 熊本產. [花]淡桃色地に濃紅色の縦絞り、一重、平開咲き、花糸淡黄色、梅芯、中輪、3～4月。[葉]楕円、中形。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]御国の誉の枝変り、1980年に肥後つばき協会により認定。写/高橋、文/松本