Warabe-uta

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.221, colour photo and description: Medium size, glossy deep red, cup-shaped single, with 5 large, rounded, overlapping, concave thick petals and a central cylinder of stamens with pinkish filaments, joined for the lower third, and yellow anthers. Flowers mid-season to late. Originated in Mi’e Prefecture, Japan. Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.288 with colour photo; English translation p.202. A natural seedling of ‘Yūkō’. Named and released by Minoru Satō in 1987.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.221.　  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.288. 【花】暗紅色、ときに鮮紅色にもなる、一重、筒咲き、筒しベ、 小〜中輪、2〜4月。【葉】楕円、中形0【樹】立性、強い、 枝は密生。【来歴】友好の光の自然実生。1987年に佐藤稔 の命名•発表。写•文/佐藤。