Id：ICR-6210
Country：Italy
Year Published/Registered：1840
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Gioia'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
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Gioja
Berlèse, 1840, Monographie, ed.2, p.215. Orthographic variant for Gioia.
» English Description
Berlèse, 1840, Monographie ed.2, p.188, 234 as ‘Gioja’: Leaves very large, rounded, lanceolate, veined, strongly serrate. Buds round with greenish scales; Flowers about 10.8 cm across, of an orange-red like ‘Magniflora’; circumferential petals in 3-4 rows, oblong, obtuse at the summit, almost all of irregular form, imbricated, but without order, of unequal spacing, one from the other, deeply notched; those at the centre very small with a small number of petaloids, short, erect and clustered. For illustration see Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie, pl.277. Do not confuse with another variety Bella Gioia. Originated in Italy by Mariani. Orthographic variant: ‘Gioja’.
