Nuccio’s Nurseries Retail Price List, 1989-1990. A red sport of
Mikuni-no-homare. Blooms mid-season. Originated in USA
Yoshimura, 1961, Higo Tsubaki Meikan: Pink, reddish striped, margined
white. Crimson streaks on rose-pink, 10 cm across, 7 petals, 150 light
yellow stamens in a burst. Leaves, broadly-elliptic, shortly acuminate
apex, margins coarsely crenate, strongly wavy, medium size. Blooms
mid-season to late. See Hiratsuka, 1964, Higo Camellia, pp.13, 36. For
colour photos: Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.334, p.169. Andoh,
1971, Tsubaki, Meika no Shōkai to Saibai, pl.160, p.55. Encyclopedia of
Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.152, Seibundō Shinkōsha, 1979,
Senchinshū, p.148. Note: These colour photos show considerable
variation in the strength of the background colour. Originated in
Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. A mutation of Higo-kyō-nishiki. Sports:
Mikuni-no-homare Red, Tabaruzaka. Chinese synonym ‘Yuguo Zhi Yu’. |
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