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‘Yata-no-Kagami’ [Satsuki]


‘Yata-no-Kagami’ [Satsuki]

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Cultivar: Group: Color: Blooms: Type: Reg Ref:
‘Yata-no-Kagami’ Satsuki Evergreen
Height: Width: Hardy: Other Name(s): Seed Parent: Pollen Parent:
Zone 7 Patentage unknown
Low to medium, upright spreading habit. Flowers blush to light yellowish-pink with deep coral margins of varying widths with a small red blotch. Single, broad funnel shape with oval, spaced, keeled, reflexed, broadly overlapping lobes that appear notched, smooth edges, 2-2 ½” wide. Blooms Satsuki early to early midseason. Leaves glossy, of heavy substance, medium in size. Zone 7. Translation: Sacred Mirror of Yata.