Marjorie Hobbs

ACRS, Camellia News, 1996, No.139, p.9, colour photo p.2 as ‘Marj Hobbs’, Reg. No.466. Registered by Mrs Marjorie Baker, Macleod, Vic., Australia. Originator Len Hobbs, Doncaster, Vic.. A chance seedling that first flowered in 1989. The flower of 28 petals opens as a formal double and matures to an informal double that is white, shading to pale pink (RHS.CC.69B) at the petal edges, 7 cm across x 3 cm deep. Flowers freely early to mid-season, on a slow growing, spreading plant. Leaves are dark green, glossy, keeled, elliptic, acute apex, serrate margins, 5.5 cm long x 3 cm wide. Petals notched and folded with a few petaloids.