Rosa ‘Cramoisie Superieure’
China rose, usually classified as a Rosa semperflorens Willd. variety in the contemporary literature. ‘Cramoisie Superieure’ is very much like an improved ‘Slater’s Crimson China’, growing a little taller, and with a straggling habit, its crimson flowers have a very pleasant, light apple-blossom scent. To 90cm. [Paul (1848, 1863, 1888, 1903), Amat].
Horticultural & Botanical History
Raised by Cocquereau in 1832. Thomas Rivers wrote of it ‘we have not even now any rose more beautiful than Cramoisie Superieure; its flowers are so finely formed, and its crimson tints so rich’. [Rivers (1854, 1857, 1863)]. Henry Curtis expressed similar sentiments: ‘This very rich scarlety crimson China may be considered the brightest gem of its class, and a great improvement of the parent, the old Mandarine (R. semperflorens), brought from China by Lord Macartney in 1789.’ [Henry Curtis p.11 vol.2/1853]. It is probably the rose called ‘Bengal Cramoisi Double’, synonyms ‘La Sanguine’ or ‘Blood-red China Rose’ by Catherine Gore, who described it as feeble and spreading in habit, with middle-sized, rather globular, very double, velvety flowers, of a vivid purple-crimson, with concave petals, the base white, an excellent description of ‘Cramoisie Superieure’, as it is known today at least.
History at Camden Park
Listed in the 1850 and 1857 catalogues [T.901/1850]. Obtained from Kew Gardens, brought out from England by Captain P. P. King in 1849. Regarded by Macarthur as new to the colony. [ML A1980-3].
Notes
Published Feb 11, 2010 - 04:42 PM | Last updated Jul 29, 2011 - 03:41 PM
Rosa ‘Cramoisie Superieure’ | Camden Park | Photograph Colin Mills. This was purchased as Cramoisie Superieure but it is often confounded with Slater's Crimson China in Australia.
| Family | Rosaceae |
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| Region of origin | Garden origin, France |
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| Name in the Camden Park Record |
Rosa cramoisie superieure
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| Confidence level | high |