(Angel’s Robe), (C.japonica). The name ‘Hagoromo’ has been used for about 9 cultivars,

some now extinct, including Itô, Ihei, 1695, Kadan Chikinshô: Persimmon pink, pointed

petals, double. Iwasaki, 1821, Honzô: Cherry pink, formal double. Both different to the

modern Hagoromo. Yashiro Kôken, 1841, Kokon Yôrankô, vol.311. No description; Kasuya,

Kamegorô, 1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotsuki lists three Hagoromo. One a single cherry

pink, sake cup shape; the second one is a persimon pink, double, small; thought to be the

same as Itôs; and finally the third as ‘New Hagoromo’: Large size, palest pink, double lotus

form, which appears to be the same as the modern cultivar. A classical hose-in-hose

semi-double of blush pink. Medium sized. Petals are curved gradually outwards. Slender

stamen column. Leaves narrowly-elliptic to narrowly ovate-elliptic, undulate, veins slightly

impressed; crenate-serrulate margins. A Japanese camellia of antiquity, it was imported to

Italy in 1886 and renamed ‘Magnoliaeflora’ (‘Magnoliiflora’), by which synonym it is

generally known in the Western World. It was given an “Award of Merit” in 1953 by the

RHS. Its red sport in Portugal was named Magnolia and appeared later, in California where it

was named ‘Rudy’s Magnoliaeflora’. Synonyms: ‘Magnoliiflora’, ‘Rose of Dawn’, ‘Angel’s

Robe’, ‘Feather Robe’, ‘Hagoromo-Tokyo’. ‘Magnoliaeflora’(Southern).

‘Magnoliaeflora’(Kiyono’s), ‘Southern Magnoliaeflora’, ‘Magnoliaefolia’, ‘Magnoliaeflora

Rosea’. Orthographic errors: ‘Hagorome’, ‘Magnoliaeflora’. Pseudonym: ‘Cho-no-hagasane’.

Originated in Kantô, Japan. See Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.95, p.160;

Andoh, 1971, Tsubaki, Meika no Shôkai to Saibai, p.29, pl.82; Tuyama, 1968, Camellias in

Japan, pl.91, p.46 as ‘Hagoromo-Tokyo’; Seibundô Shinkôsha, 1979, Senchinshû, p.114;

Yokoyama & Kirino, 1989, Nihon no Chinka, p.306; Katei Gahô, ed., 1984, Chabana

Koyomi, vol 1, Tsubaki, p.52. Chinese synonym ‘Yuyi’.

Hagoromo. Taniguchi, 1912, Chinka Kyôkan. Synonym, for Higo-hagoromo.

Hagoromo.