Kumagi (Nagoya)

Uekiya Bunsuke Hikki,1830. No description. Taniguchi, 1912, Chinka Kyōkan: Single, very large, deep red, large stamen cluster. Adachi, 1960, Camellia. Its Appreciation & Artistic Arrangement, p.72: Flower, dark red, 13 cm across, 5-7 petals. Stamens fully opened, white. Leaf, very large, ovate elliptic. Occasionally petaloids appear. Hiratsuka, Taizō, 1964, Higo Camellia, pp.13, 32: Dark crimson, 13 cm across, 5-7 petals white stamens in a spreading circle. Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, pl.11, p.42 has Kumagai from Kansai and Kumamoto. This and the previous camellia seem somewhat similar. Orthographic error: ‘Kumgai’. Different reading: ‘Kumagaya’. Synonym: ‘Higo-kumagai’. See: Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, pp.124, 240.

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