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‘Yamato-no-Hikari’ [Satsuki]


‘Yamato-no-Hikari’ [Satsuki]

Photo © Jim Trumbly

Cultivar: Group: Color: Blooms: Type: Reg Ref:
‘Yamato-no-Hikari’ Satsuki Evergreen
Height: Width: Hardy: Other Name(s): Seed Parent: Pollen Parent:
Zone 7 Light of Japan ‘Hozan’ ‘Eiten’
Slow growing, upright, bushy. Flowers variable: 1) white with purplish-red stripes and lines, yellow-green blotch; 2) moderate pink with irregular white margins and dark blotch; 3) dark purplish-pink selfs. Single, broad funnel-shaped with, rounded, overlapping, strongly reflexed lobes, slightly wavy edges, 3-4” wide. Blooms late (Satsuki late to very late season). Leaves rounded, medium in size. ‘Hozan’ x ‘Eiten’. Translation: Light of Japan. Registered 1940. BG 1160.