Trees and Shrubs
A division of the Camden Park catalogues that is not clearly defined. In broad terms it includes all plants with woody stems except conifers and fruit trees and shrubs.
Camellia japonica ‘Spofforthiae Simplex’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘Spofforthiae Simplex’ appears to be extinct and no description is extant. Bred by William Herbert it was probably similarly coloured to ‘Spofforthiae’ but with single flowers. [ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Spofforthiae’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Very large double white flowers with a few pink stripes and occasionally one or two anthers. ‘A vigorous shrub and of an elegant port; leaves oval, horizontal, nerves salient, of a deep green, teeth distant and very acute; buds very large, with greenish scales; flower three inches in diameter, full, of a milk-white with a few red stripes. – Superb.’ [Berlèse Monography p.89/1838].
Camellia japonica ‘Sylvia’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 50/52. ‘Bright lake crimson, small round flower, quite double, but not quite regular to very centre. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Tamora’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 40/51, originally called ‘Ariel’ in the notebooks. ‘Bluish pink or crimson, quite double regular large size petals, good shape and substance, gradually diminishing to centre. Good flower.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Timandra’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 64/52. ‘Dark crimson, thick petals tolerably numerous, large and small intermixed. Tolerably good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Triangularis’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Originated By M. Floy, New York, USA. ‘Single, very curious.’ [Hogg, Magazine of Horticulture, 4:155, 1838. Quoted in the ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Valeria’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 55/52. ‘Bright crimson, very double but irregular, one row outer petals flat and thick substance, inner very crowded and generally erect. Middling or tolerably good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Vandesia Carnea’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Full, pale cerise, sometimes soft pink flowers, to 10cm across, the crown being rose-shaped and irregular, the outer petals wide, rounded, irregular and imbricated, the inner ones dense and numerous, forming a tight centre. An English cultivar. [ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Variegata’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. ‘The flowers are of a fine dark rose red colour, irregularly blotched with white; whilst those which appear in the spring are generally plain red. They are three or four inches in expansion. When the flowers are fully expanded they become recurved. The centre petals are often small, narrow and upright, confusedly arranged, many of them being disposed in tufts, with small parcels of stamina intermixed. Some flowers are particularly handsome and as double as a rose.’ [Don].
Camellia japonica ‘Vesta’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 17/50. ‘Scarlet crimson, very like Medea, but more scarlet.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Viola’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 67/52. ‘Bluish pink, very double, quite irregular petals, very crowded, large and small intermixed, erect. Handsome flower, but rather ragged’. William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica L. var. ?Virgilia?
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 39/51. ‘Dark pink, tolerably regular, very double, petals of thick substance, but rather pointed. Very good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Volumnea’
A cultivar of Camellia japonica L. Camden Park bred, seedling 34/51. ‘Bright crimson, two rows of outer petals, very broad and large and of thick substance, inner very small and placed like old Waratah, but a handsomer flower. Good.’ William Macarthur. [MP A2948-6].
Camellia japonica ‘Wardii’
A Camellia japonica L. cultivar. ‘Wardii’ has full, dark orange-red flowers with round petals in 10 tiers, the centre ones very small. [FC p.267/1837, ICR].
Camellia japonica ‘Wellbankii’
A Camellia japonica L. cultivar. ‘Wellbankii’ has yellowish-white flowers to 8.5cm across, the petals somewhat confused, the outer roundish, with undulated margins, the inner irregular and twisted in tufts. [ICR].
