International Camellia Registrars
Dates of Office
No. | Term | Name | Country |
1 | 1962-1979 | Dr. Ralph N. Philbrick | USA |
2 | 1979-1997 | Dr. Tom Savige | Australia |
3 | 1998-2004 | Mr. Malcolm Perry | Australia |
4 | 2005-2007 | Mrs. Lorraine Fraser | Australia |
5 | 2007-2015 | Mr. Neville Haydon | New Zealand |
6 | 2015- | Prof. Zhonglang Wang | China |
Dr. Ralph Philbrick
Dr. Tom Savige (the tallest, the 2nd from the left) and Australian friends visited Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS in March 1980.
Neville Haydon in 2005 in Guilin of China
Mrs. Lorraine Fraser and Mr. Zhonglang Wang in Australia in 2006
To National Registrars of New Camellia Cultivars
Zhonglang Wang
I have been appointed International Camellia Registrar since 2015, by the International Camellia Society, which has designated resposibility from the International Commission for the Nomenclature of Cultivated Plants for publication of valid and accepted names. Our publication obligations require the use of the first valid publication, i.e. containing sufficient information for identification, of any new cultivar. The registration systems in place in most major camellia growing countries are invaluable in being able to pick up most of these publications in an orderly and controlled way. Publications outside the registrations systems, e.g books and nursery cataloges, I will have to pick up by whatever means possible, again as Tom and Neville did.
The following are points which I like to include in the International Camellia Register entry, and therfore appreciate seeing in your first publication. I have include a few DOs and DON'Ts from the International Commission's Code in case you are not aware of these:
CULTIVAR NAME
BREEDING DETAILS
ORIGINATOR
PROPAGATOR, IF KNOW.