Oninsky
A delicate lilac-toned pink sasanqua described as 'very lovely' despite weak growth — beauty over vigor, from nineteenth-century Japan.
A nineteenth-century Japanese sasanqua valued for its beauty despite physical frailty. The original description in the Nihon Shubyō Catalogue (1910) captures the paradox: 'Although petals are delicate and weak, very lovely and floriferous.' The medium blooms display a lilac-toned pink deepening toward the petal base. Growth is upright but weak, flowering early. Known under the synonym 'Morning Sky.' Illustrated in Tuyama and Yamada's Ishii's Selected Japanese Camellias Including Sasanquas (1979). Listed locally as 'Oninsky' and registered as 'Asahi-no-sora.' Source: International Camellia Register.