Id：ICR-3412
Country：United Kingdom
Year Published/Registered：1850
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Countess of Ellesmere'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
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Comtesse d'Ellesmere
Leguay, 1853, Revue Horticole, p.30. Orthographic variant for Countess of Ellesmere.
Comtesse of Elasbe
Peer, 1956, American Camellia Yearbook, p.57. Orthographic error for Countess of Ellesmere.
Contessa d'Ellesmere
Jules Menoreau Catalogue, 1856, p.8. Orthographic variant for Countess of Ellesmere.
Contessa di Ellesmere
Fratelli Roda, 1885, Nursery Catalogue, p.49. Orthographic error for Countess of Ellsmere
Countess Ellesmere
Smith Nursery Catalogue, 1894-1895. Orthographic error for Countess of Ellesmere.
Countess of Ellesmede
de Bisschop Nursery Catalogue, 1937, p.5. Orthograhic error for Countess of Ellsmere.
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Countess of Ellesmere (Jackson)
von Biedenfeld, 1856, Practische Grundlehren der Culture von Camelien, p.37. Synonym for Countess of Ellesmere.
Countess of Ellesmore
Jose Maria Serra, 1855, Establecimiento de Horticultura Catalogue, p.10. Orthographic error for Countess of Ellesmere.
Countess of Ellsmede
Camellia Society of America Yearbook, 1939, p.27. Orthographic error for Countess of Ellsmere.
» English Description
Beck’s, May,1850, The Florist and Garden Miscellany, vol.3, p.114-115 with colour plate facing p.113; which shows a double flower with almost white base and pink stripes on the petals. Raised by seed saved from ‘Alnuts White’, Chandleri and Gilesii, they suppose it owes its parentage to the former variety. The Gardeners’ Magazine of Botany, 1850, p.168: Mssrs. Jackson of Kingston (England) contributed a seedling camellia called Countess of Ellesmere, a pretty cupped, white flower, slightly marked with rosy purple; the petals are tolerably firm, but rather serrated at the edges and the centre a little confused. Synonym: ‘Countess of Ellesmere’(Jackson). Sport: Countess of Ellesmere Bicolore. Orthographic errors: ‘Countess Ellesmore’, ‘Countess of Ellsmede’, ‘Countess Ellesmede’, ‘Comtesse of Elaske’, ‘Countess of Ellesmore’. Orthographic variant ‘Contessa di Ellesmere’. Duncan & Davies Nursery erroneously list ‘Countess of Ellesmere’ as a synonym for ‘Colvellei’, (‘Colvillei’). Synonym: ‘Andrea Doria’.
