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Tarantella

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Id:ICR-19162

CountryAustralia

Year Published/Registered2008

Cultivar Type:For Ornamental

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Scientific Name:Camellia 'Tarantella'

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Spanish Dancer  (C.reticulata hybrid). New Zealand Camellia Bulletin, Nov. 2008, p.18, Regn. No.483. A cross of C.sasanqua x C.reticulata hybrid Gael’s Dream x C.japonica Takanini, first flowered in 2004. Name later changed to Tarantella because of the earlier published, but later registered, Australian cultivar.

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New Zealand Camellia Bulletin, Nov. 2008, p.18, Regn. No.483 as ‘Spanish Dancer’. (Name later changed because of an earlier published, but later registered, Australian cultivar.) A cross of C.sasanqua x C.reticulata hybrid Gael’s Dream x C.japonica Takanini, first flowered in 2004. Raised by Neville Haydon, Takanini, NZ. Plant is upright, of average density and rapid growth. Dark green leaves are 9.5 cm x 2.5–3.5 cm, narrowly elliptic, apices cuspidate. A peony form flower, 9.5 cm wide and 2.5–3 cm deep, with 16 to 20 fluted, orbicular petals. Colour is a vibrant red, (RHS 53C) and a light scent. Stamens are in a loose column between the petals, cream filaments with bright yellow anthers. Flower is of true reticulata form, but flowers early to mid-season.

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