Id：ICR-18390
Country：Australia
Year Published/Registered：1862
Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
AGM Type：
Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Speciosissima'
Species/Combination：C. japonica
Chinese Name：至美
Japanese Name：
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Synonym：
Rookwood Waratah
Camellia Grove Nursery Catalogue, 1945, p.5. Synonym for Speciosissima.
Rose Waratah
Camellia Grove Nursery Catalogue, 1945. Synonym for Speciosissima.
Shepherd's Red
Duncan & Davies Nursery Catalogue, 1943. Synonym for Speciosissima.
Speciosima
Rasmussen’s Catalogue, 1922, p.13. Orthographic error for Speciosissima.
Speciossima
Jessep, A.W., 1948, Plants in the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, p.4. Orthographic error for Speciosissima.
» English Description
Shepherd & Co. Nursery Catalogue, 1862: A large and well-shaped, freeflowering variety, raised by ourselves. Can be confidently recommended as the most showy camellia at present in cultivation. Flowers brilliant scarlet, paeony shaped, and unusually elevated in the centre. The variety is robust and a free grower, blooms early to mid-season. Waterhouse, 1952, Camellia Trail, p.29, description, pl.XXI: With two to three rows of outer petals, flat or curving downwards and a waratah-like central cushion of small, incurving petaloids, colour carmine rose (RHS.Chart 21/1). In its early stages the bloom resembles a large Anemoniflora; but later the central cushion becomes much elevated and a concave, crater-like cavity forms in the middle. A robust and erect-growing shrub with large characteristic foliage. It blooms early and continues in flower for a long period. Synonyms: ‘Shepherd’s Red’, ‘Pink Waratah’, ‘Arnenoniflora Rosea’. Orthographic errors: ‘Speciossima’, ‘Speciosima’. There is a variegated form for which a separate name has not been given.
