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Unryū-tsubaki

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Id:ICR-20040

CountryJapan

Year Published/Registered1967

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Unryū-tsubaki'

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Uuryūtsubaki  Satō, 1975, Chūbu no Tsubaki, p.90. Orthographic error for Unryū-tsubaki, (synonym ‘Unryū’).

Yunlong  Gao, Jiyin, 2007, The Identification....Outstanding Camellias, p.406; Chinese synonym for the Japan C.japonica Unryū-tsubaki. Previous synonym ‘Feilong’.

Unryû-tsubaki  The International Camellia Register, 1993, Thomas Savige.

Description

» English Description

Kyōto Engei Kurabu, Tsubaki Tokushū, 1967, No.8, p.3, black and white photo; Kyōto Engei Kurabu, 1969, Hana to Ki no Bunka, p.144: Small to medium, campanulate single, crimson veined deeper, with central stamen cylinder, yellow anthers, red filaments. Leaves medium green, broad-ovate to ovate, apex blunt acute, margins sharply serrulate; branchlets and twigs in characteristic zig-zag growth. Originated in Izu Ōshima, Japan. See colour photo & description, Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.250. Synonyms: ‘Unryū’, Mikawa-unryū. Corruption of name: ‘Unku’, ‘Uniyro’. ‘Unryū’ implies a zig-zag shape like a dragon in the clouds. Chinese synonym: ‘Feilong’, later changed to ‘Yunlong’. Note: There are two different ‘Unryu-tsubaki’, (zig-zag camellias). ie, Mikawa-unryū and Kishū-unryū.

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