Usumyōrenji

Wada, 1941, Japanese Garden Treasures, p.28, as ‘Usu-Myorenji’: Beautiful, tubular campanulated, rosy pink flower with showy, yellow sta­mens peeping out, single. Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.107, p.54, description, p.118: Pink, single bush camellia of the Nagoya Province, Japan. Leaves broadly elliptic to oblong-­elliptic, shortly acuminate at the apex, thick, flat on upper surface, impressed venation. Petioles glabrous. Petals pink (Spinel pink 0625/0-1), a little lobulated at the apex. Staminal tube com­paratively large, a little irregular, filaments yellowish. Blooms mid-season to late. Originated in Chūbu area, Japan. See: Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, p.184; Satō, 1973, Chūbu no Tsubaki, p.5; Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.27, pp.47, 295; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, pp.21, 202. Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.144. Cor­ruption of name: ‘Asuniyouense’. Different reading: ‘Usu-myohrenji’. Note: No relationship with Benimyōrenji or Shiro-myōrenji.

 淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.144.    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.21、文/p.202.  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.37. 【花】桃紅色、一重、抱え咲き、筒しベ、中輪、11〜3月。【葉】 広楕円、中形、平坦。【樹】やや立性。【来歴】古くから当地 にあったもので、1933年の中部の椿名鑑には、すでに記載がある。写/佐藤、文/中部椿生産部