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Augusto

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Id:ICR-881

CountryItaly

Year Published/Registered1845

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Augusto'

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Synonym

Cesare Augusto  Auguste van Geert Nursery Catalogue 1848, p.15. Synonym for Augusto.

Description

» English Description

Berlèse, 1845, Monographie, ed.3, p.149: The plant habit is tall and slender. It belongs to the class of perfections with irregular imbrication, the petals changing from rounded, emarginate circumscription to lanceolate form, apiculate or slightly laciniate, towards the centre. Verschaffelt, 1853, Nouvelle Iconographie. Book VII, pl.II. All are a rose-pink with a few white stripes or splotches at the centre. An Italian seedling raised by Mariani and named for Cesare Augusto. Synonym: ‘Cesare Augusto’.

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Blooming Season Italy

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