Blanda

Sweet, 1826, Hortus Britannicus, pt.1, p.61: ‘Blush Waratah from China’. Described by Berlèse, 1837, Monographie, ed.1 as clear cherry red. Leaves 7.5 cm long by 3.5 cm wide, roundish-ovate, narrow at the apex, flat, finely serrate, rather thick, of a dull, dark green. Flower, tolerably large, full, of a cherry red; petals of the circumference, broad, expanded, cre­nate, sometimes striped with white, those at the centre, small and united in a fascicle. Hibbert & Buist, 1832, The American Flower Garden Directory, p.75: “...or ‘Blush Waratah’, flower in a shape similar to Anemoniflora, rather large and of considerable duration.” Orthographic error: ‘Blandina’. Originated in China.