Rosa do Nadal

Rosa do Nadal. (Camellia reticulata hybrid). Publicación de la Sociedad Española de la Camelia, 33. 2018, p.40. Originated by Leonor Magariños 20 years ago in Cuntis, Pontevedra (Spain). FLOWER Size: medium to large, 9-10.5 cm in diameter and 4-4.5 cm depth. Colour: bright pink 57A-B-C, (57BC background and veined with 57A) (RHS color chart), and some internal petals with more faint pink stripes. Shape: rose form. Petals: 35-50, the external rounded, and the internal rounded or elliptical; cordated margin, with a very small peak in the middle of the upper fissure of each petal. Petaloids: 1-5, pink 57C striped with light pink and white. Stamens: in variable number, from 10 to 45, cramped in the center, twisted, with very short filaments. LEAF Size: medium, 10.5-12 cm long and 4-5 cm wide. Colour: medium green, dull. Shape: elliptical to lanceolate. Margin: serrate. Apex: acuminate. Base: acute to obtuse. PLANT Blooming period: early to mid season; it begins with first flowers at the end of December or beginning of January and it extends until March. Habit: bushy with medium growth rate and upright growth habit. Other data: it has been shown at camellia exhibitions in Galicia in 2018. Origin of the variety: a seedling of (possibly from x C. reticulata C. reticulata C. japonica ’Debut’).