Yakushibeni

Yokoyama, 1975, Gendai Tsubaki Meikan, p.230 with black & white illustration: Large size, light red, open, incomplete double peony form with stamens dispersed among small, irregular centre petals. Leaves deep-green, broad-ovate, apex acute, slightly recurved, margins serrulate. Originated in Kurume City, Fuku’oka Prefecture, Japan. See colour photo: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, p.152. Note: ‘Yakushi’ is the name of a Temple and also the name of the Buddha of healing.

文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.230.     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.152.     文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. p.230. 久留米產. [花]濃緋色地により濃い網脈紋が各弁ごとに出る、牡丹咲き、散り芯、大輪、3～4月。[葉]濃緑色、楕円形の中型、凸頭、鈍脚、葉身はゆるく半曲し、枝打ちは目立たない　[樹]立性、強肩。[来歴]久留米市仙花園の産、　文/横山