Itō, Tokuemon, 1788, Tsubaki Hanagata Tsuki Obo’echō; Shirai-Bunko,
1789, Shoshiki Hanagatachō: Red, peony form, large size, double. Blooms
early. Kasuya, Kamegorō, 1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotsuki, list two
different cultivars of this name. One is that above, the other is
described as a new cultivar. See JCS., 1969, Tsubaki, No.7, p.35. Uesa,
1844, Sōmoku Benran; Itō, Ko’emon, 1879, Chinka Shū: Cardinal red
mottled white, medium size, peony form, 9-11 cm across. Very early to
mid-season flowering. Large, dull green foliage, slow tall growth.
Hertrich, 1954, Camellias in the Huntington Gardens, vol.I, p.94: This
cultivar is extremely variable as to colour and form. Normally it is
deep pink to carmine rose, blotched white, about 11 cm in diameter x 5.5
cm deep. In some strains it is more nearly white moired pink. The flower
is a peony form, incomplete double with notched, wavy and recurved
petals. The centre of the bloom is an irregular mass of various sized
petaloids, mixed with and joined to, 4 or 5 groups of stamens. It has
typical elliptic to wide-elliptic, coarsely serrated and definitely
veined, thick leaves with an abrupt acuminate apex. Leaves sometimes
show yellow variegation. Originated in Kantō area, Japan. See colour
plates: American Camellia Yearbook, 1949, facing p.51; Camellias by G.G.
Gerbing, 1945, p.51 as ‘Daikagura Variegated’; Hume, 1946, Camellias in
America, p.258. Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, p.62, pl.31;
JCS., ed. 1972, Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, p.134, pl.266 &
p.335; Sebundō Shinkōsha, 1979, Senchinshū, p.92 & 229. Yokohama &
Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.370. Synonyms: ‘Shōjitsu’, ‘Kiyosu’,
‘Daikagura Variegated’, ‘Daikagura Variegata’, ‘Daikagura’(Ward),
‘Seihi’, ‘Lion’s Dance’, ‘Shōnichi’, ‘Shōhi”, ‘Shibori-daikagura’,
‘Teruhi’, ‘Ward’s ‘Daikagura Marbled’, Daikagura’, ‘Daikagura Variant’,
‘Daikagure Supreme’, ‘Daikagure’(Ward’s Light), ‘Daikagura Ward’s
Variegated’, ‘Daikagura Special’, ‘Tōbusa’, and erroneously
‘Idaten-shibori’. Different readings: ‘Dai Kagura’, ‘Taikagura’,
‘Daikakura’. Western corruptions of the Japanese name: ‘Dyka-gura’,
‘Daikgura’, ‘Daikiagura’, ‘Daikaguri’. Sports: Benidaikagura,
Benten-kagura, ‘Conrad Hilton’, High Hat. Seedlings: Margaret Hearn, Mrs
Josephine M. Hearn, Pink Dawn, Mrs Marie Keating, Indian Summer. Most
early American listings of Daikagura were actually of Benidaikagura, the
self red form. Chinese synonyms: ‘Baiban Daikagula’, ‘Taishenle’, and
‘Huamudan’.
|
