Yobukodori (Kantō)

Kasuya, Kamegorō,1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotsuki, as one of the three birds with Miyakodori and Inaoi-dori. Itō, Ko’emon, 1879, Chinkashū: Pale pink, small, single. Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.90, description, p.150; JCS, 1972, Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, 1972, vol.I, pl.42, p.297: Pale pink, medium size, single of 5-6, rounded, emarginate petals, waved and crinkled. Stamens in a central column, yellow anthers, white filaments joined for lower third. Leaves elliptic, deep green, apex acute. Originated in Japan. See colour photos & descriptions: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū, pp.161, 256; p.90, Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka. The variety that reached USA is a different clone from the Chūgai Nursery. See entry above under ‘Yobiko-dori’. The name translates as ‘calling nestling’ and has often appeared in ancient Japanese poems. It is also the name of the Japanese cuckoo and is one of the famous camellias in Japan of the Edo era. Different reading: ‘Yobikodori’. Corruptions of name: ‘Yobuku Dori’, ‘Yobeki-dori’, ‘Yobiho-dori’, ‘Yobiki Dori’. See: JCS, 1969, Tsubaki, No.7, pp.35, 37.

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