Id：ICR-11551
Country：Japan
Year Published/Registered：1827
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
AGM Type：
Scientific Name：Camellia maliflora 'Maliflora'
Species/Combination：C. maliflora
Chinese Name：樱花茶
Japanese Name：
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Camellia Sasanqua Rosea Burdin Maggiore & Co. Catalogue, 1845. Synonym for Maliflora.
Fl. Pl. Carneo Edwards, 1821, Botanical Register, t.547 as ‘Camellia sasanqua B. stricta a.’, ‘fl. pl. Carneo’, ‘Mrs Palmer’s Camellia’. Synonym for Maliflora
Maleflora J.W.D., 1835, Floricultural Cabinet, p.99. Orthographic error for Maliflora.
Maliflora Lindley Coolidge Rare Plant Gardens Catalogue, 1950. Synonym for Maliflora.
Maliflora Rosea Plena Prudente Besson Catalogue, 1865. Synonym for Maliflora.
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» English Description
Edward’s Botanical Register, 1827, t.1078: This species was imported from China to England in 1816 by Captain Richard Rawes for T.C. Palmer of Bromley. It was first illustrated in Curtis’s Monograph, 1819 as ‘Camellia Sasanqua flore pleno’, or ‘Double Blush Sasanqua’, published in the 1826 Loddiges Botanical Cabinet as plate number 1134. Other early Pseudonyms were ‘Sasanqua Rosea’, ‘Palmer’s Double Sasanqua’, ‘Sasanqua Stricta’, ‘Sasanqua Rosea Plena’, ‘Sasanqua Roseo-Carneo’, ‘Sasanqua Multiflora’, ‘Sasanque Palmer’s Double’, ‘Rose Coloured Sasanqua’. Synonym: ‘Mrs Palmer’s Camellia’. It was established as the species Camellia maliflora by Lindley in the Botanical Register, 1827. It is a densely leafed shrub, up to 2.5 meters tall; leaves oblong-elliptic, or broadly-elliptic; bluntly acute, 3.7-5 cm long x 1.8-3 cm wide, minutely denticulate, thinly leathery, dark green. Flowers semi-double, 3.5-4 cm across, blush rose, composed of numerous petals, stamens few, filaments white, anthers yellowish. It was later confused with the species C.rosiflora and was grown at Kew for many years under the name C.rosiflora var. flore pleno. Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline, p. 188. When first introduced to England, C. maliflora was regarded as a variety of C. sasanqua, but after some years, John Lindley recognized that it was not C. sasanqua, and named it C. maliflora. Later, it was identified as a double-flowered cultivar of C. rosaeflora and carried the name C. rosaeflora var. flore pleno until 1935. Sealy (1958) recognizes that yhe Kew Gardens plant was identical to that described by Lindley. Further, Sealy considers C. maliflora a hybrid of unknown origin and places it in Section Theopsis. Chang and Bartholomew (1984) believe that C. maliflora is a hybrid according to the floral characteristics, but leave its status as a distinct species, in Section Paracamellia. Ming (2000) believes the camellia was a cultivar and should not be recognized at the species level. ‘Temari-tsubaki’ is the Japanese synonym. Others synonyms used were ‘Maliflora Rosea Pleno’ and ‘Maliflora Lindley’, ‘Multiflora’, ‘Florida’(Multiflora) ‘Betty McCaskill’, ‘Apple Flowered’. Orthographic errors: ‘Malifolia’, ‘Maleflora’, ‘Malliformis’, ‘Malleflora’. Chinese synonym ‘Yinghuacha’.
» Chinese Description
Flower Form：Semi-double / Standard
Flower Colour：Single color Flower / Pink
Flower Size： 3.5-4 cm
Blooming Season： 3-4 Month France
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