Id:ICR-3931
Country:Belgium
Year Published/Registered:1860
Cultivar Type:For Ornamental
Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Distinction'
Species/Combination:C. japonica
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» English Description
Verschaffelt, 1860, Nouvelle Iconographie, Book V, pl.III: Secured by grafting from a mutation on General Washington. The flowers are large and formed of petals of unusual amplitude, rounded and lobulate, regularly imbricated, of a rosy white, deeper coloured at the centre, mottled and streaked with crimson and with a faint yellow stripe in the centre of each. Originated in Belgium by Verschaffelt.