Yūgetsu

Nippon Tsubaki - Sasanqua Meikan, 1998, p.270 with colour photo; English translation p.189. Medium size, pale pink, sake cup-shaped single, cylindrical stamen column. Flowers mid-season to late. Leaves elliptic to ovate, medium size, flat. Spreading growth. A natural seedling of Kantō-tsukimiguruma. Named and released by Ikuo Nishihata in 1980. From Nara Prefecture.

文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.232.　　淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.64.    誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.270. 【花】淡桃色の一重、盃状咲き、筒し ベ、中輪、3 — 4月。【葉】やや長い 楕円、中形、平坦。【樹】やや横張り 性。【来歴】関東月見車の自然実生。 1980年に西畑往男の命名•発表。写/ 桐野、文/西畑。