(Narumi Bay), (C.sasanqua), Ashizawa, Yagorô, 1898, Chabaika Taishû: Large size, single

to semi-double, white with a red margin; Chûgai Nursery Catalogue, 1935-1936, p.26: A

small to medium single, cup-shaped. White with pink margins. Fendig, 1953, American

Camellia Catalogue as ‘Narumi-gata’: Large to medium sized, white-variegated, single, 7-8

cm across, cupshaped. The colour is white with delicate magenta-pink margins. There are 6-8

notched and creped petals, 4.5 cm across. The yellow stamens are central and flare outwards.

The flower has a musty fragrance. Leaves, dark, olive green, 6 cm x 3.2 cm; texture stiff,

bends upward from the midrib, apex and base, bluntly rounded. Habit vigorous, spreading and

hardy. Imported to America in 1930 by the Star Nursery, Montebello, California as

Narumigata and by McIlhenny in 1931 from Veitch & Son Ltd. Exeter, England, under the

invalid name ‘Oleifera’, under which name it also became widely dispersed in Australia and

New Zealand. It was originated by Ashizawa, Kantô district, Japan in 1898. Sport:

Covington. For colour photos see plate facing p.50, American Camellia Yearbook, 1954 and

pl.547, p.216, Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pp.216, 389. This cultivar

has been established to be a pentaploid and was used in crossing with C.reticulata to produce

the hybrids Flower Girl, Show Girl and Dream Girl. Corruption of the name: ‘Naruma

Gata’, ‘Narume Gata’, ‘Narumi-Nada’, ‘Narumijata’, ‘Nuramigata’. Synonyms: ‘Narumi

Bay’, ‘Narumi Beach’ and erroneously ‘Oleifera’. Different reading: ‘Narumi-gata’. Received

an RHS., Award of Merit in 1953. Chinese synonym ‘Minghaixie’.

Narumi-gata. Margaret Tapley, 1996, “Growing Camellias”, p.84. Corruption of the name

Narumigata. See ICS Register, p.1339.

Narumigata. (Narumi Lagoon), (C.oleifera), Yokoyama, 1955, Engei Yôran, p.16: Outer petals red, inner

white. Large size, single. Originated in Japan. Possibly the same as the above.

Narumijata. Foss, 1963, Gardeners’ Chronicle, p.447. Corruption of the Japanese name

Narumigata.

Narumi-Nada. Semmes Nursery Catalogue, [before 1950]. Corruption of the Japanese name

Narumigata.

FOGLIA:  medio grande, tondeggiante, convessa, dentata. Fioritura in medio mperiodo.

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