I thought this was a camellia sasanqua until yesterday but I may be wrong. The more I looked at this, the more it looked like a Japanese camellia because (i) the petals are thicker than those of a camellia sasanqua; (ii) the leaves are bigger than those of sasanquas; and (iii) the leaves are less toothed than sasanquas'. The thing is I couldn't tell for sure because there was no flower on the ground yet, which is the easiest way to tell which is which. I need to wait for a while to see how the flower dies.
The Japanese camellia was unpopular in the Edo (samurai) period among samurai because the flower falling off in its entirety (unlike a sasanqua flower, which dies with petals falling off one by one) reminded samurai of beheaded human heads.
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昨日まで山茶花だろうと思っていたのですが、どうもツバキのような気がしてきました。なぜなら、①花びらが厚い、②葉が大きい、③葉のギザギザが山茶花より浅い。花が散ればはっきりすると思います。
ちなみに、花びらが一枚一枚散っていく山茶花とは違い、椿は花が丸ごとぽとっと落ちます。これが落ちた首を連想させるため、江戸時代の武士はツバキを嫌っていたそうです。
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