.

(White Chrysanthemum), (C.japonica), Mizuno, Genshô, 1681, Kadan Kômoku: White, large,

double. Kadan Chikinshô, 1695; Itô, Jukyû, Honzô Hanamaki’e, 1739: Medium size;

Shirai-Bunko, 1789, Shoshiki Hanagatachô: A lotus shaped flower. Yashiro, Kokon Yôrankô,

1841, vol.310; Kasuya, Kamegorô, 1859, Tsubaki Irohanayose Irotsuki. Colour photos &

descriptions in the following: Tuyama, 1966, Camellia Cultivars of Japan, pl.76, pp.130, 472;

Tuyama, 1968, Camellias of Japan, pl.59; Encyclopedia of Camellias in Colour, vol.I, 1972,

pl.409, 410 & p.353; Satô, 1975, Chûbu no Tsubaki; Macoboy, 1981, The Colour Dictionary

of Camellias, p.116; Seibundô Shinkôsha, 1979 Senchinshû, p.75, description, p.222: Well

branched cultivar with dense foliage rapid growth. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic with

petioles glabous to a little hairy. Flowers white, flattened in appearance, strongly wavy,

leaving a tight pointed bud centre. Flowers mid-season to late. Originated in Kantô area,

Japan. Synonyms: ‘Tama-usagi’ (of Hôkyô, Kyôto), ‘Gardenia’, ‘Neige d’Oree’,

‘Refinement’, ‘Harriet I. Laub’, ‘Lord Chesterfield’, ‘Purity’, ‘Japanese Perfect White’,

‘Japanese Perfection’, ‘Perfection White II’, ‘Golden Snow’, ‘White Japanese Purity’.

Corrupted names: ‘Shirigiku’, ‘Shiragika’. Pseudonyms: Erroneously as ‘Renjo-no-tama’, ‘Il

Cygno’. Chinese synonym: ‘Zhengjie’. See: JCS., 1965, Tsubaki, No.5, p.29; ibid. 1983,

No.22, p. 116; 1969, No.7, pp.31, 36 and Kyôto Engei Kurabu, 1964, Tsubaki Tokushû, No.5, p.80.