Tenkō

Higo Camellia Society, Apr. 1965, Higo Tsubaki, No.1, illustra­tion front cover: Medium size, very soft pink, petals, 6-7, margins crinkled and fluted, stamens spreading, anthers light yellow, filaments whitish-yellow. Slightly fragrant. Flowers mid-season. One of the fragrant Higos like Akatsuki-no-kaori of Kumamoto City and Nioi-fubuki: Petal ends wavy; stamens more or less 100, light yellow colour. Petals and stamens joined at base. Pistil shorter than stamens, 3-4 fid, vague purplish-red colour. Leaves elliptic to long-­elliptic, dark green. A seedling of Osaraku originated by Shimodake, Kiichirō, Kumamoto, Japan in 1950. See colour photos: Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, p.369; ibid, vol.II, 1978, pl.295. Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, pp.102, 233. Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.116.

講談社　1975年　《現代椿集》 P.369.　淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.116.    文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.52.    ガーデンラィフ編集部. 1980. 《原色日本の椿写真集千椿集》. 誠文堂新光社. 写/p.102、文/p.233.  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.174.  日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.236. 熊本產. [花]淡桃色、一重、平開咲き、花糸淡黄色、輪芯、有香、中輪、3～4月。[葉]長楕円、中形。[樹]横張り性。[来歴]長楽の自然実生、1965年に肥後つばき協会により認定。写/阿部、文/松本