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Formosa de Young

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Id:ICR-5497

CountryUnited Kingdom

Year Published/Registered1838

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

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Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Formosa de Young'

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Formosa di Young  Del Lungo & Girardi, 1928, Le Camelie, p.116. Orthographic variant for For­mosa de Young.

Formosa Youngii  Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie p. facing pl.157. Synonym for Formosa de Young.

Formosa(Young's)  Oudin, Lisieux Nursery Catalogue, 1844, p.11. Synonym for Formosa de Young.

Description

» English Description

Makoy Nursery Catalogue, 1838: No description. Berlèse, Iconogra­phie, p. facing pl.157: Produced from seed by Young of Epsom, England. The flower is double, anemone form, deep red with a touch of purple, sometimes completely red, sometimes with blotches of white. The petals of the circumference are round-oval, notched, mostly imbricated with the edges soemtimes white. Those at the centre are erect in fascicles, average, intermin­gled, rounded, emarginate and forming a large, central, upright and elevated sphere. Frère Noisette, Nantes Nursery Catalogue, 1857, p.35: Bright cherry-red, variegated with white, anemone form. Synonyms: ‘Formosa Youngii’, ‘Formosa di Young’, ‘Formosa’(Young’s).

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