Plants in the Hortus
Many of the plants described here were listed in the catalogues of plants published by Sir William Macarthur in 1843, 1845, 1850 and 1857 and in an unpublished catalogue dated 1861. A large number of additional plants were identified from correspondence, gardening notebooks and other documents surviving in the archives. The Hortus attempts to describe all the plants grown in the gardens at Camden Park and those grown in horticultural enterprises such as orchards and vineyards and includes plants grown outside the gardens in the park-like environs of the Camden Park estate. The Hortus plants served a wide range of purposes in the 19th century household; as ornament, living fences, fibre, dyestuffs, medicines, food and drink from the garden, orchard and vineyard and many others.
Calostemma purpureum R.Br. var. cunninghamii
For details of the species see Calostemma purpureum R.Br. Cunninghamii is a form with rose-coloured flowers discovered at Moreton Bay. [PD]. Calostemma purpureum is highly variable in flower colour, varying from very pale blush, almost white, to deep reddish pink and including yellow forms. See also Calostemma purpureum R.Br. var. luteum and Calostemma purpureum R.Br. var. bronze.
Calostemma purpureum R.Br. var. luteum
For a description of the species see Calostemma purpureum R.Br. Very similar to Calostemma purpureum except that it has larger, yellow, or greenish-yellow flowers. [Baker Am.].
Calothamnus species unidentified
Genus of 24 species found in Western Australia. They are bushy, evergreen shrubs, from 1m to 3m in height, with crowded, narrow leaves, often hairy, and are usually found in dry scrub and open forest. Their characteristic flowers, somewhat resembling a one-sided bottle brush, are usually red, sometimes cream. Common names include ‘Net bush’ and ‘One-sided bottle brush’. [RHSE, Blomberry].
Calycanthus floridus L.
Fully hardy, bushy, spreading shrub with oval or oblong leaves to 12cm, and fragrant, dark red flowers, 5cm across and resembling a tiny water-lily with numerous strap-shaped petals, in summer. To 2.5m. [RHSE, Hortus, Hilliers’].
Calystegia hederacea Wall. var. flore pleno
Fully-hardy trailing or climbing perennial with hairy, lance-shaped leaves, to 10cm long, and solitary, double, rose coloured flowers, to 5cm across and 3.5cm long, the corolla divided into many narrow, petal-like lobes, in summer and autumn. To 5m. [RHSD, Hortus].
Camassia quamash (Pursh) Greene
Half-hardy, clump-forming bulbous perennial with linear leaves to 50cm, and racemes, to 30cm, of shallowly cup-shaped blue flowers. [RHSD, Hortus].
Camellia japonica ‘Alba Plena’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘Alba Plena’ is an erect shrub with light green foliage and medium, formal double white flowers, to 10cm across, the petals ‘being disposed in circles from the circumference to the centre, and lying perpendicularly flat and even one above the other.’ [ABR pl.25/1799].
Camellia Japonica ‘Alba Simplex’
A cultivar of Camellia Japonica L., ‘Alba Simplex’ is a bushy shrub bearing medium, flat, single white flowers with a few pink flecks. [RHSE, Hilliers’].
Camellia Japonica ‘Althaeflora’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Althaeiflora’ has large, dark red, paeony-form flowers. [Hilliers’].
Camellia japonica ‘Althea’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred. ‘Crimson scarlet, like Hermione in form, more scarlet and not so [word undeciphered]. Pretty good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Anemoniflora Alba’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Of similar shape to ‘Anemoniflora’, which see, the flowers are white with occasional striping and spotting with pale red. The outer petals are large and spreading, the inner small, irregularly shaped and numerous in a dense mass. [ICR]. ‘A vigorous shrub; bud very large, depressed at the summit, and almost round; scales green and shining; flower very full, very large, four and a half inches in diameter, of a dazzling snow white; exterior petals large, foliaceous revolute, sometimes spotted with red at the claws, and irregularly arranged; those of the interior rows, long, erect, cut in a ligulate manner, united and compressed into a large flattened ball, in the middle of which are confounded a few sterile and almost invisible stamens.-Superb.’ [Berlèse Monography p.46/1838].
Camellia japonica ‘Anemoniflora Knightii’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. The outer petals of ‘Anemoniflora Knightii’ are vivid red and heart-shaped, the inner petals small, intercolated, and striped with white. The flowers are usually double but occasionally single. [ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Anemoniflora’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘The flowers are remarkably shewy, and resemble a double anemone. They are about three or four inches in diameter, of a deep red colour. The outer petals expand quite flat, roundish-cordate, surrounding a great number of smaller ones, regularly disposed and rising upright in the centre, each of them are roundish-cordate, and slightly marked with veins of a deeper colour. Those in the centre of the flower are of a peculiar form, being small and fleshy at the base, and broad and thin at the tip, they are compactly arranged in rows from the circumference to the centre, which is considerably elevated above the outer petals, and each is incurved towards the styles, with the edges turned outwards.’ [Don].
Camellia Japonica ‘Annette’
A cultivar of Camellia Japonica L. Camden Park cultivar, seedling 38/51. ‘Pale crimson, very double, irregular flower handsome general form. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Armida’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling number 31/50. ‘Coral coloured, very double, petals very thick substance, gradually diminishing to centre, very full round flower, very handsome.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
