Ezo-nishiki

Synonym：

Higo-ezo-nishiki  Andoh, 1971, Meika no Shōkai to Saibai, p.216. Synonym for the Higo Camellia Ezo-nishiki.

Quartet  McIlhenny, 1934, List of Camellia Japonica for Sale, p.1, lists 3 forms of Camellia under this name. A coloured flower painting of this name was published on p.52 by Barren, Leonard in the Mar, 1934, Country Life, in ‘The Camellia Carries On’. In 1935, McIlhenny on p.13 of List of Camellias now Growing in Camellia Garden of E.A. McIlhenny lists and describes ‘Quartet’ as ‘Semi-double, large white, blotched and lined with light red and rose-pink. Some blooms solid red. Often four colours on the same bush’.. Later one of these forms was propagated off and listed by McIlhenny in 1942 as ‘Quartette Mottled’. Its name was changed to ‘Etienne de Bore’ in his 1945-1946 catalogue. Another form was known as Cabeza De Vaca. In the meantime, in his 1937, 600 Varieties of Camellias McIlhenny adopted the orthography ‘Quartette’, a spelling that continued to be used in the USA ever since. From the viewpont of priority this orthography has no standing and ‘Quartet’ would be the valid form for what is a synonym for ‘Ezo-nishiki’ as Tricolor.

Xiayijin  Gao, Jiyin, 2007, The Identification....Outstanding Camellias, p.430; Chinese synonym for the Japan C.japonica Ezo-nishiki.

Yeso-nishiki  Cannon Scion Catalogue, 1963-1964, p.16. Corruption of Japanese name ‘Yezo-nishiki’,Different reading for Ezo-nishiki.