Id：ICR-13283
Country：Europe
Year Published/Registered：1914
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
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Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Mrs William Thompson'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
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Madame William Thompson
de Bisschop Nursery Catalogue, 1958 as ‘Mme. William Thompson’. Orthographic variant for Mrs William Thompson.
Mme William Thompson
de Bisschop Nursery Catalogue, 1958. Orthographic variant for Mrs William Thompson.
Mrs Thompson
Steffek, 1949, Plant Buyer’s Guide, ed.5, p.50. Abbreviation for Mrs William Thompson.
Mrs W. Thompson
Burncoose & Southdown Nursery Catalogue, 1987, p.11. Abbreviation for Mrs William Thompson.
Mrs Wm. Thompson
G. Reuthe Ltd Kent, Nursery Catalogue, 1935, p.84. Abbreviation for Mrs William Thompson.
Mrs Wm.H. Thompson
Amsler, 1948, American Camellia Yearbook, p.4. Abbreviation for Mrs William Thompson.
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Pendula
SCCS., Bulletin, vol.11, No.S, p.7, 1950. Ralph Peer says “At the Caledonian Nursery in Guernsey is a large bush called ‘Pendula’ having fine white flowers and weeping habit of growth. Probably a synonym for Mrs William Thompson.”
» English Description
Sander, St Alban Catalogue, [before1914]. No description. Robert Veitch, Spring List of Greenhouse Plants, 1929. p.10: Large size, single, white, with broad petals. In his 1937 catalogue this is changed to ‘semi-double’. van Houtte Pere Catalogue, 1937, 380:34: Very beautiful flower with broad, white, rounded petals, blushed very delicate pink. McIlhenny, 1937, 600 Varieties of Camellias, p.10: Semi-double, white with faint pink blush. See pp.260, 261, Hertrich, 1955, Camellias in the Huntington Gardens, vol.II: Flower: semi-double; near white or indefinable blush; 10 cm across x 4.5 cm deep. Petals: about 12, obovate to cordate, 5 cm long x 4 cm wide, multiple notched, deeply at apex, tapering towards stout, short haft; petaloid sepals, blush with green mid-stripe. Centre of flower; fascicles of stamens, slender cream coloured filaments, partially attached to centre petals, light golden anthers, sometimes a few large petaloids. Buds: elliptic. Leaves: broad-elliptic, 8-9 cm long x 5-6 cm wide, dark dull green above, lighter glossy beneath, medium heavy leathery; broad, sharp serrations; apex variable from short abrupt to tapering, recurved. Plant habit: spreading, loosely branched. Early to mid-season flowering. Originated in Europe. Abbreviations: ‘Mrs Wm. Thompson’, ‘Mrs W. Thompson’. Orthographic variants: ‘Madame William Thompson’, ‘Mrs William H. Thompson’.
