(C.x vernalis), Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.1, 1972, p.218, pl.555,

description p.391: Deep pink, deeper pink in the lower half of the petals, semi-double, 9 cm

across, 16-20 petals with a cylindrical, centre column of yellow stamens, filaments pale

yellow. Blooms mid-season. Leaves oval, mid-green, medium size, acuminate, obscurely

serrate. Originated at Kurume, Fuku’oka Prefecture, Japan. Resembles a C.japonica flower.

This cultivar was imported by Nuccio’s Nurseries, Altadena, California from Tereda, Japan,

about 1977. Ref: “The Enigma of ‘Egao’” by Bill Donnan, SCCS, 1987, The Camellia

Review, vol.49, No.1, pp.23, 24. Orthographic error: ‘Eago’. Sports: Shibori-egao,

Egao-kurenai. Chinese synonym: ‘Xiaoyan’.

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

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