Tokuzan-tsubaki

Seibundō Shinkōsha, Apr. 1976, Garden Life, p.48; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, p.105, colour photo, p.234: Small size, pure white, single of 7-8 petals, large, rounded, overlapping, slightly emarginate, compact, cental stamen column, somewhat tapering and pinched in at the top, anthers brownish yellow, filaments white. Leaves ovate, dark glossy green, margins obscurely crenate. Plant habit horizontally spread­ing. Colour photo, p.52, Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka. Found in the late Kondō, Tokuzan’s garden in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Shigeichi Yagi in 1969. Different reading: ‘Tokusan-tsubaki’.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.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.105、文/p.234.  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.180.  日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.17. 愛媛產. [花]白、一重、筒～ラッパ咲き、筒しベ、小～中輪、3～4月。[葉]楕円、中形、やや波曲。[樹]立性、強い。[来歴]伊予小松藩の儒者.近藤篤山遺愛とされたツバキ、1969年に八木繁一の命名.線。写ゾ桐野、文/河野