Shi Shi Gishura
An 1841 Japanese cultivar with anemone to peony-form flowers and broadly expanded outer petals — widely grown as a landscape sasanqua.
One of the most widely grown landscape sasanquas, first documented by Yashiro (1841) and Kasuya (1859). Tuyama (1968) described the flowers as pink (Carmine 621/2) in anemone to peony form with 8 to 9 broadly expanded outer petals and a large rounded mass of small, erect, folded inner petals and petaloids. Leaves are small, broadly elliptic to oblong-elliptic with slightly impressed venation. Extensively used for hedging and mass planting. Listed locally as 'Shi Shi Gishura' and registered as 'Shishigashira.' Source: International Camellia Register.