Yakumo

Yokoyama & Kirino,,1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.236, colour photo and description: Medium size, rose-pink with vague white blotches, wide-campanulate single with 7 petals in two rows, wide, rounded, emarginate and overlapping. A central col­umn of stamens with pinkish filaments, joined for the lower third, anthers bright yellow. Leaves elliptic, mid-green, apices acute, margins shallowly serrate. Blooms mid-season to late. Originated in Matsu’e City, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. Named and released by Takeshi Ishitobi in 1978. Note: The name refers to the famous novelist Lafcadio Hearn, who lived in Matsu’e-shi and whose Japanese name was Koizumi, Yakumo.

淡交社.1989年. 《日本の椿花》.ｐ.236.　  誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.ｐ.266. 【花】紅地に深い白覆輪または白斑が入る、一重、ラッパ咲 き、筒しベ、小〜中輪、2〜3月。【葉】楕円、中形。【樹】立 性、強い。【来歴】簸川郡多伎町の民家の栽培種から選抜。 1978年に石飛赳の命名•発表。写•文/井原。