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Yukibotan

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Id:ICR-21433

CountryUnited States

Year Published/Registered1859

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Yukibotan'

Chinese Name

Japanese Name:雪牡丹 ゆきぼたん

Meaning:Snow peony

Synonym

Pride of Descanso  SCCS., 1947, The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature. Synonym for Yukibotan.

S 103  Williams & Thompson, 1950, American Camellia Yearbook, p.45. Jones’ designation for ‘Pride of Descanso’, synonym for Yukibotan.

Snow Paeony Camellia  Urquhart, 1956, The Camellia. Synonym for Yukibotan.

Snowish Peony  SCCS., 1954, The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature, p.88. Synonym for Yukibotan.

Yoki Botan  Vanderbilt, 1940, Camellia Research, p.8. Corruption of the Japanese name Yukibotan.

Description

» English Description

Kasuya, Kamegorō,1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotsuki in peony flower section; Itō, Ko’emon, 1879, Chinkashū; Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.67, p.116: Large, white, peony form. Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.44, p.22, description, p.98: Upright bush camellia cultivar of rather weak growth. Leaves broadly oblong to ovate-oblong, surface flat, venation sub-impressed. Petioles glabrous. Flowers very large, pure white peony, petals much undulated, with small petal-like petaloids in the stamens. Late flowering. Origi­nated in the Kantō district, Japan. Imported to USA by McIlhenny, Jungle Gardens, Avery Island, Louisiana and listed by him in 1937. Synonyms: ‘Pride of Descanso’, ‘Snowish Peony’. Chinese reading: ‘Xuemudan’. Corruption of name: ‘Yoki-Botan’. For colour pls & descriptions see: Urquhart, 1956, The Camellia, vol.I; Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.238 & p.326; Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1980, Senchinshū pp.157, 254. Puddle & Hanger, 1962, RHS., The Rhododendron and Camellia Yearbook, No.16, p.123 gave ‘Shirobotan’ and ‘Hakubotan’ as syn­onyms, however as these names had been previously used for other cultivars this must be rejected. Resembles Shiro-daikagura.

» Japanese Description

講談社 1975年 《現代椿集》 P.326  保育社 .1974. 《つばき》安藤芳顕著 .210. 文化出版局. 1975. 《現代椿名鑑》. P.235.     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.157、文/p.254. 誠文堂新光社.1998.《日本ツバキ.サザンカ名鑑》.p.274. 日本ツバキ協会. 2010. 《最新日本ツバキ図鑑》. p.40. 江戸產. [花]白、牡丹咲き、散りしベ、極大輪、4月。[葉]長楕円、大形。[樹]立性。[来歴]1695年の「花壇地錦抄」に載る。写/桐野、文/編集委員会

Flower

Flower Size13-55 cm

Blooming Season United States

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