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Id：ICR-22691
Country：United Kingdom
Year Published/Registered：1837
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Adonidea'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
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Adomidea. Loureiro
1872-1973, catalogue No.9: Orthographic variant for Adonidea.
Adonida
Harrison ea., 1837, The Floricultural Cabinet, vol.V, p.172. Orthographic error for Adonidea.
Adonide
Vanderbilt, 1940, Camellia Research, p.1. Orthographic error for Adonidea.
Adonidoea
Veitch, James Jr, 1853, Catalogue of Select Stove Plants…, p.113. Orthographic error for Adonidea.
Dorusio à bordes blancs
van Houtte Catalogue, 1843-1844, 12:ss. Synonym for Adonidea.
Galesii
Isola Madre Catalogue, 1845. Orthographic error for ‘Gallesii’, (Adonidea).
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Gallesii d'Italie
van Houtte Catalogue, 1843-1844 as ‘Gallesi d’Italie’. Synonym for Adonidea.
Gallesii
van Houtte Catalogue,1841, 7:8 as ‘Gallesi’. Synonym for Adonidea.
Hime
Valley Garden Centre Catalogue, 1946-1947. Synonym for ‘Duchesse Decazes’, itself a synonym for Adonidea.
» English Description
Harrison ed.,1837, The Floricultural Cabinet and Floral Magazine, vol.V, p.172 as ‘Adonida’: Delicate pink, fading to white at petal edge. Van Houtte Catalogue, 1844, 18:7: Variable in flower form, sometimes imbricated at other times peony form but its colour is always distinguished. The pale pink petals are tinted pale yellow and lightly veined with a reddish hue. The central petals show a yellow tint. The flower is entirely edged with a band of white. (Press’s Eclipse is sometimes sold in its place). Auguste van Geert Nursery Catalogue, No. 105, 1847 as ‘Adonidea’: Paeony form white variegated with dawn pink. Verschaffelt, 1850, Nouvelle Iconographie, Book III, pl.III as ‘Adonidea’: Formal double. The exterior petals are very large, undulate, spread out, the ones following are very small, erect, numerous and form a thick, compact heart. Colour a delicate pink fading to white towards the petal edge. A sport of ‘Press’s Eclipse’. Orthographic errors: ‘Adomida’, ‘Adonide’, ‘Adonida’, ‘Adonidoea’. Synonyms: ‘Dorusio’, ‘Dorusia’, ‘Dorusio à bords blancs’, ‘Gallesi d’Ialie’, ‘Eclipsis (Press’s) Adonidea’, ‘Gallesii’. Van Houtte, 1846, gives ‘Duchesse Decazes’ as a synonym. For illustration see pl.III, Book III, Verschaffelt, 1850, Nouvelle Iconographie.
