Id：ICR-853
Country：United Kingdom
Year Published/Registered：1833
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Atroviolacea'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
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Altro Violacea Arnaud Catalogue, 1839-1840. Orthographic error for Atroviolacea.
Atroviolacea Nova Trillon, Le Mans Nursery Catalogue, 1843, p.3. Synonym for Atropurpurea.
Atroviolacea Plena Burdin Catalogue, 1835, p.38 as ‘Atro-Violacea Plena’. Synonym for Atroviolacea.
Atroviolacea Rubra Giardino Inglese di Caserta, 1857. Synonym for Atroviolacea.
Atroviolacea Serni Harrison ed., Floricultural Cabinet, 1838, vol.6, p.149. Synonym for Atroviolacea.
» English Description
Courtois, 1833, Magazin d’Hortculture, 1 [pt.D]:315. No description. Colla, 1843, Camelliografia, p.88: Originated in England from seed of ‘Rubra Simplex’, (Rubra) A semi-double cultivar, 9-10 cm across, of an intense red colour, marked with rare, white streaks. The corolla of many petals, the outer disposed alternatively in 3-4 rows, regular, round-oval; those of the interior, few, small, irregular, folded diversely. Berlèse, 1837, Monographie, Vol.I: Flower large, regular, well formed, clear red and afterwards deep; petals of exterior rounded, acuminate; those of the centre narrower, elongated, distorted and acute. Synonyms: ‘Atroviolacea Rubra’, ‘Atroviolacea Plena’. ‘Atroviolacea Serni’, ‘Atroviolacea Nova’. A possible identification is in International Camellia Journal, 202, p.49, 'ATROVIOLACEA': A CAMELLIA REDISCOVERED by Gianmario Motta and Nicola Tartaglione, in which the specimen in the Recale garden, Caserta, Italy, is illustrated. Accordingly, the flower diameter is 7,5 to 8 cm., peony or semidouble. In fact, Atroviolacea resembles Anemoniflora violacea (see).
Flower Form：Semi-double / Doubleness(hose-in-hose)
Flower Colour：Bicolor Flower / Striped white
Flower Size： 9-10 cm
Blooming Season： United Kingdom
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