‘Sanko-no-Tsuki #1’ [Satsuki]


‘Sanko-no-Tsuki #1’ [Satsuki]

Photo © Carolyn Beck

Cultivar: Group: Color: Blooms: Type: Reg Ref:
‘Sanko-no-Tsuki #1’ Satsuki Evergreen
Height: Width: Hardy: Other Name(s): Seed Parent: Pollen Parent:
24 0°F ‘Shozui’ ‘Fukumusume’
2’ x 3’ wide. Flowers variable: white with light and deep purplish-pink stripes; moderate purplish pink with irregular white margins and a prominent dark purplish-pink blotch; dark purplish-pink with light pink areas in the center of the lobes; purplish-pink selfs, . Single, broad funnel-shaped, with 5-6 wide, rounded, broadly overlapping lobes, 2 ½-3” wide. Foliage somewhat rounded, medium in size. Zone 7, at least. ‘Shozui’ x ‘Fukumusume’. Translation: Moon of Three Lights. May be a vaiant of a very old cultivar ‘Otowayama’, Ito 133.