Dianthiflora

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Id：ICR-3883

Country：United Kingdom

Year Published/Registered：1826

Cultivar Type：For Ornamental

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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Dianthiflora'

Species/Combination：C. japonica

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Anemoniflora Knightii Loddiges Catalogue, 1828, p.21. Synonym for ‘Knightii’, which is a synonym for Dianthiflora.

Carapphyllaeflora Verschaffelt Catalogue, 1847-1848, p.55. Orthographic error for ‘Caryophylliflora’; synonym for Dianthiflora.

Cariofiliflora Sacco, 1832-1833 according to Schiavone, 1981, Il Giardino nell Camelie, pl.57. Orthographic variant for ‘Caryophylliflora’, synonym for Dianthiflora.

Caryophilliflora Maupoil & Figlio, 1842, Catalogue. Orthographic error for ‘Caryophylliflora’, synonym for Dianthiflora.

Caryophyllaeflora Cels, Paris, Nursery Catalogue, 1836-1837, p.8. Orthographic variant for ‘Caryophylliflora’, synonym for Dianthiflora.

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Description

» English Description

Sweet, 1826, Hortus Britannicus, p.61. as ‘Carnation Waratah’. Baumann & Baumann, 1829, Collection de Camellias élevés à Bollwieler, p.6, pl.5: The outer petals are vivid red, heart-shaped, and the inner petals are smaller, imbricated and striped with white. This variety sometimes bears single flowers (as illustrated), and sometimes double. Courtois, 1833, Magasin d’Horticulture, 1 [pt.D]:315 as ‘Knight’s Carnation Waratah’. Paxton, 1834, Magazine of Botany, vol.1, p.38: “Red ground, striped white”. Berlèse, 1837, Monographie, ed.1, p.72, 117, 127: Shrub very vigorous, not very graceful, expanded branches; leaves of ordinary size, a little inclined, elongate-oval, strongly veined; bud with blackish scales, elongate, acute; flower broad, sometimes double and often single, cherry-red; petals of the circumference subcordiform, broad, 7 in number; those of the centre, erect, numerous, striated with white and forming an arched centre. Late flowers are single and the centre full of stamens. Synonyms: ‘Cariophyllaeflora’, ‘Knight’s Carnation Waratah’, ‘Carnation Waratah’, ‘Knightii’, ‘Knight’s New Carnation Waratah’, ‘Knight’s Anemomiflora’, ‘Knight’s Waratah’, ‘Anemoniflora Knightii’, ‘Knight’s Single Scarlet Waratah’, ‘Knights’, ‘Dianthiflora Plena’, ‘Dianthiflora Waratah’, ‘Knight’s Nova’, ‘Warratah Striata’ ‘Double Variegated Waratah de Knight’, ‘Double Variegated Warratah de la Chine’. A seedling of Anemoniflora raised by Knight, King’s Road, Chelsea, London, England about 1822. For illustration see Loddige’s Botanical Cabinet, 1828, vol.XV, fol.1463. Its first listing was in Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 1825 as ‘Knight’s New Carnation Waratah’ which is more a description than a name.

Flower

Flower Form：Anemone / Single

Flower Colour：Single color Flower / Red

Flower Size： 8-9.5 cm

Blooming Season： 2-4 Month France

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