Empereur d'Autriche

Tourres, Macheteaux Catalogue, 1835, p.17. No description. Berlèse, 1837, Monographie, ed.1, p.74, 78, 127: Leaves very large, oval, dentate, of an obscure green, prominent veins; buds large, oval with greenish scales at the base and white at the apex; flowers 8 cm across, double, of a cherry red on blooming and paler afterwards, petals recurved, equally imbricated, a few in the centre, small, curled, marked with white and intermixed with stamens. This is a seedling raised by Berlèse and not synonymous with Monstruosa Italica as Ellis, 1953, Old Camellia Varieties would lead one to believe. Orthographic error: ‘Empereur d’Antriche’. For colour plate see Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie vol.2, pl.178.