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Japonica Variegata

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Id:ICR-8614

CountryJapan

Year Published/Registered1864

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

AGM Type

Scientific Name:Camellia japonica 'Japonica Variegata'

Chinese Name

Japanese Name

Meaning

Synonym

Japonica Foliis Argentis Variegatis  Jean Verschaffelt, 1867-1868, Catalogue, No.11, p.42 as ‘Japonica Fol. Arg. Var’. Synonym for Japonica Variegata.

Japonica Foliis Variegatis  Jean Vervaene fils, 1864, Price List, No.1, p.6 as ‘Japonica Fol. Var.’. E.G. Henderson Nursery Catalogue, 1868, p.70, Linden Catalogue, 1869-1870 as 'Japonica fol. var.'. Synonym for Japonica Variegata.

Description

» English Description

Veitch Catalogue, 1864: Rose-red, small single with white variega­tion on foliage. Compact growth. Veitch Catalogue, 1867, p.64: True red, with variegated foliage, having a more or less irregular, broad margin of pure white. Originated in Japan. Syn­onym: 'Japonica Foliis Variegatis'. Ferreira & Celina, 2000, O Mundo da Camélia, p.104, as ‘Portuense’, with colour photo; The leaf markings do not match the above descriptions. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, 1866, Br Berthold Seemann: the plant was introduced from China by M. Robert Fortune and is now flowering in M. Bull's Nursery. It some what differs in the shape of the foliage form the normal type of C. japonica and if it was not for its glabrous, 3 celled ovary, might be suspected of being a new species.

Flower

Flower Size3-5 cm

Blooming Season1-3 Month Japan

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