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Id:ICR-1923

CountryItaly

Year Published/Registered1841

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

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Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Brillante'

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Alba Brianta  Baptist & Son Catalogue, 1861, p.9. Orthographic error for ‘Alba Briantana’, synonym for Brillante.

Alba Briantana  de Jonghe, 1851, Traité de la Culture du Camellia, p.98: Synonym for Brillante.

Alba Briantea  Ambroise Verschaffelt, 1851-1852, Catalogue Général, p.13. Synonym for Brillante.

Alba Brianti  Sewell Catalogue, 1878, p.43. Orthographic error for ‘Alba Briantina’, synonym for Brillante.

Alba Briantina  Journal d’Horticulture Pratique de la Belgique, 1848‑1849, p.302. Verschaffelt, 1848, Iconographie, index with ref.1 (2): pl.2 as ‘Brillante’ (‘Alba Briantina’).

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Description

» English Description

van Houtte, 1841, Catalogue. 7:3. For illustr. see pl.II, Book II, Verschaffelt, 1848, Nouvelle Iconographie as ‘Brilliante’. A brilliant white, large, formal double, 11 cm across, buds, large. rounded, with green scales; leaves, oval elliptic, sharply serrate. Originated by M Casoretti, Italy. Synonyms: ‘Briantina’, ‘Brillant d’Italie’, ‘Brilliant de Casoretti’, ‘Brillante Casoretti’, ‘Alba Briantana’, ‘Alba Briantea’. Orthographic errors: ‘Brilhante’, ‘Brilliant’.

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