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Bellina Major

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Id:ICR-1329

CountryItaly

Year Published/Registered1840

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Bellina Major'

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Meaning

Synonym

Belini Major  Charles van Geert, 1846, Catalogue Général, p.63. Orthographic error for Bellina Major.

Bellini Major  Charles van Geert Catalogue, 1845, Orthographic error for Bellina Major.

Description

» English Description

Cachet Catalogue, 1840-1841, p.1 as “pink”. van Houtte Catalogue, 1841, 7:2: Large size, dark red, clustered centre, streaked white. Anonymous, 1841, Gardeners’ Chroni­cle, No description. Berlèse, 1845, Monographie, ed.3, p.246: Flower, more than 10 cm across, full, rose form, pale orange red with a tint of carmine. Outer petals ovate, broad, entire, thick, sepa­rated and irregularly imbricated. Centre petals elongated and slender, somewhat twisted, but arranged like the outer petals and forming a wide, filled out, irregular corolla with some stmens showing. Originated by Casoretti, Italy. Orthographic errors: ‘Beltina Major’, ‘Bellini Major’, ‘Belina Major’.

Flower

Flower Size

Blooming Season Italy

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