Trees and Shrubs

Camellia japonica ‘Hero’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 42/51.  ‘Pale crimson, very double, petals thick substance, very small and quite confused. When full blown quite convex and almost semi-globular. Very pretty flower.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica Hippolyta’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 54/52.  ‘Pale crimson, or deep pink, large flowers, outer row of petals large and undulated, inner excessively numerous, erect, confused, forming an irregular very convex half-sphere. Handsome.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica ‘Ianthe’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 3/50.  ‘Apparently a very handsome shaped flower of very bright crimson colour and good substance.  Did not open properly, being gathered too soon.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica ‘Imbricata Alba’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘Flower three and a half inches in diameter, spheroidal, very full and forming a regular rose, the petals of which diminish in size towards the centre, and are mutually imbricated from the centre to the circumference, each has a free border, a little sinuous, entire, two lines broad in the centre and augmenting to twenty-five lines in the periphery; they are white with distinct red or white stripes.-Magnificent.’  [Berlèse Monography p.88/1838].  See also Camellia japonica L. var. imbricata.

Camellia japonica ‘Imbricata’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Imbricata’ has formal double, carmine rose flowers, often with central petals streaked white.  The name ‘Imbricata’ refers to the way that the petals are formally arranged, overlapping each other, like the tiles of a roof.  [ICR].  ‘Bud, spherical, rather large, scales greenish; flower large, perfectly round, of a cherry-red, No.2; shaded with carmine-lake; petals from 70-75, regularly imbricated, oval, broad, terminating in a point at the summit; those of the centre a little striped, or marked with white; is a long time in bloom.-Magnificent.’  [Berlèse Monography p.64/1838].  Under the name ‘Imbricata rubra’ it is still available.  [Hilliers’].  

Camellia japonica ‘Imogen’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 2/50.  ‘White, quite double, petals moderate substance, incurved like Myrtifolia, good size, very handsome, but not equal to the old double white.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].

Camellia japonica ‘Incarnata’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. The flower is a glowing blush, some 9cm across, the somewhat pointed petals being recurved towards the outside.  [ICR, Don].  ‘Flower three and a half inches in diameter, full, arranged in a star, of a carnation color, pale on opening, and soon after becoming of a dingy yellow, a shade above No.3; petals imbricated, tufted, slightly acuminated, sometimes crenated at the summit, gently leaning on each other, and forming a kind of star.-Magnificent.’  [Berlèse Monography p.83/1838].

Camellia japonica ‘Insignis Alba’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘Flowers large, three and a half inches in diameter, single, of a cherry red, No.3, six petals in the circumference, sometimes spotted with white; petaloid stamens, whitish, slightly striped, with a pale red.-Passable.’  [Berlèse Monography p.64/1838].

Camellia japonica ‘Insignis’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L., ‘Insignis’ has flowers that are at first bell-shaped but unfold the large outer petals to exhibit a dense, globular mass of small, variegated petals.  The large outer petals are of deep rose with darker veins, the inner rose, variegated with white.  [ICR].

Camellia japonica ‘Iras’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 5/50.  ‘Crimson, with a few lighter splashes, very regular in form, petals good shape and substance, did not open properly, probably very good.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].

Camellia japonica ‘Isabel’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 32/51.  ‘Pure white, smallish size, perfectly double and regular to centre, petals well shaped, moderate substance, incurved, smaller buds of better form than old Double white.  Beautiful flower.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica ‘Juliet’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 65/52.  ‘Large light rather dull crimson, outer petals very large and thick, inner erect, very crowded. Irregular large semi-globular flower, rather coarse.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica ‘Juno’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 41/51.  ‘Bright crimson, excessively double, petals very numerous, arranged round several distinct centres like several double flowers attached together.  Very good.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

An unnamed cultivar at Camden Park, #4 at the Old Orchard, now part of the Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute, is a very close match for William's ‘Juno’. The flowers are large, anemony-form, very double, almost globular when full blown, and bright crimson in colour (RHS Colour Chart 52A—Crimson). Many show what appear to be multiple centres exactly as described by William. Some petals show white streaking, not mentioned by William, but this varies between flowers. The flowers have stamens scattered among the petals and several stigmas in the centre. It is an upright grower, very vigorous and easily propagated from cuttings.

Another possibility is 'Pallas', described by William Macarthur as ‘Dark bright crimson, very double with several centres like Juno, quite irregular.  Good.’ [MP A2948-6].

Camellia japonica ‘Lavinia’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 57/52.  ‘Deep rose colour with irregular stripes and blotches of faint white. Quite double and regular. Would be a perfect little flower, but petals are too thin in substance.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].  

Camellia japonica ‘Leila’

A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 45/52.  ‘Beautiful large white flower, two rows of outer petals large entire, undulated and inclined to be fimbriated, inner very numerous, crowded, erect, of yellow tint. Beautiful and new.  First flower very large, 4½ inches in diameter.’  William Macarthur.  [MP A2948-6].