Yamagata Number 1

Adachi, 1960, Camellia. Its Appreciation & Artistic Arrangement, as ‘Yamagata No.1’, [p.19], colour photo: Medium red single with deep red veining. 5-6 large, rounded, cordate petals. Leaves dark green, elliptic, apex acuminate, margins crenate. Origi­nated in Yamagata, Japan. Note: This group of Adachi camellias No.1 - 7 are provisional names for C.rusticana gathered in Yamagata Prefecture by Mr Adachi. As far as is known no other names have been attached to them. nor have they been commercially propagated.