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夏椿夏ツバキ [sK] 夏つばき [sK]
なつつばきナツツバキ (nokanji)
1. [n]
▶ Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
Cross references:
  ⇐ see: 2061190 沙羅【しゃら】 2. Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
  ⇐ see: 2823000 娑羅樹【さらじゅ】 1. Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)
  ⇐ see: 1754400 沙羅双樹【さらそうじゅ】 2. Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)



History:
4. A 2023-04-23 20:25:42  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
3. A* 2023-04-23 16:45:09  Brian Krznarich <...address hidden...>
  Refs:
夏椿	18915	47.7%
ナツツバキ	15317	38.6%
なつつばき	1780	4.5%
夏ツバキ	1493	3.8%
夏つばき	2159	5.4%
  Comments:
椿 itself is not [uk].  Any obvious pairings (夏、雪). probably won't be either.

As with several other 椿 entries, apparently not [uk].  Not extremely common on twitter, but 夏椿 certainly appears at least as popular as the kana form.

More often than not, they seem to appear together (which would explain the ngrams being pretty close).

Here's a gardening article that almost exclusively uses the kanji form(just mentions the kana one time).
https://gardenstory.jp/plants/69563

椿 is jinmeiyo, so newspapers are not "supposed" to use it for flowers (as I understand it).  Kanji certainly underrepresented in "proper" news results.
  Diff:
@@ -5,0 +6,8 @@
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>夏ツバキ</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
+</k_ele>
+<k_ele>
+<keb>夏つばき</keb>
+<ke_inf>&sK;</ke_inf>
@@ -16 +23,0 @@
-<misc>&uk;</misc>
2. A 2010-06-23 02:53:20  Jim Breen <...address hidden...>
  Diff:
@@ -16,2 +16,2 @@
-<gloss>Japanese stewartia</gloss>
-<gloss>stewartia pseudocamellia</gloss>
+<misc>&uk;</misc>
+<gloss>Japanese stewartia (Stewartia pseudocamellia)</gloss>
1. A 2005-11-09 00:00:00 
  Comments:
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