(Hermitage of Perpetual Youth), (C.japonica), Waterer Nursery Catalogue, 1954-1955: Soft

pink, medium size, single of cupped form with 5-6 petals, themselves cupped, cleft and

crimped at the apex. The pink colour fades towards the haft. The petals surround a slightly

irregular stamen cluster. Buds globular. Leaves elliptic to long-ovate, apices bluntly acuminate,

recurved, sharply serrate. Plant habit erect with slender branches. For colour photos see

Satô, 1975, Chûbu no Tsubaki, p.28; Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972, pl.40,

p.50; Seibundô Shinkôsha, 1979, Senchinshû, p.133, desription, p.245.Yokoyama & Kirino,

1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.110. Different readings: ‘Furohan’, ‘Hurôan’. It is one of the three

representative flower for Chûbu, Japan, together with Tarô´an’ and Jurô-an. In England the

cultivar under this name has been confused with Apple Blossom, (‘Joy Sander’). Received an

‘Award of Merit’ from the RHS in 1956. Considered to be a cross of Tarô´an and a

C.rusticana.

Furohan. Andoh, 1971, Tsubaki, Meika no Shôkai to Saibai, p.216. Different reading for Furô-an.