Hybrids

Camellia 'Alpen Glo'

(C. fraterna × C. pitardii)

Flower miniature, about 3 cm wide, single to semi-double and in 2 shades of pink.

Raised Edgar Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a chance seedling from the hybrid 'Snow Drop' that first flowered in 1983.

Introduced c. 1985.

Camellia 'Baby Bear'

(C. rosiflora × C. tsaii)

Plant dwarf with dense foliage that makes it ideal for rockeries and bonsai. Flowers single,  pale pink to white with 6 petals.

Raised by Neville Haydon, Howick, New Zealand with C. tsaii as the male parent.

Introduced c. 1976.

Camellia 'Blondy'

(C. fraterna × C. pitardii)

Flowers about 5 cm wide, informal double, pure white.

Raised by Edgar Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a chance seedling from 'Snow Drop' and first flowered in 1983.

Introduced c. 1986.

Camellia 'Bogong Snow'

(C. 'Tiny Princess' × C. fraterna)

Flowers miniature, informal double with 7–9 outer petals and central group of petals and petal-like stamens.

Raised by T.J. Savige, Wirlinga, New South Wales, Australia. First flowered in 1979.

Introduced c. 1985.

Camellia 'Cornish Snow'

Flowers about 5 cm wide, single with 8 petals, white with flushes of pink.

Raised by Mr Williams at Caerhays Castle as a seedling using C. cuspidata as the seed parent and C. saluenensis as the pollen parent.

Introduced c. 1948.

Camellia 'Fragrant Joy'

(C. lutchuensis × C. rusticana)

Flowers about 5 cm wide, informal double, dark lavender pink; fragrant.

Raised by Dr William L. Ackerman, D.C., USA as a seedling that first bloomed in 1968.

Introduced c. 1983.

Camellia 'Fragrant Pink'

(C. rusticana × C. lutchuensis 'Yoshida')

Flowers about 5.5 cm wide, informal double, deep pink with about 10 petals and 12 petal-like stamens.

Raised by Dr William L. Ackerman, Glenn Dale, Maryland, USA with C. 'Yoshida' as the female parent and first bloomed in 1964.

Inroduced 1966.

Camellia 'Gay Baby'

Flowers about 5 cm wide, semi-double, deep pink. New growth on this plant is a conspicuous bronzish purple.

Raised by O. Blumhardt, Whangarei, New Zealand and first flowered in 1975.

Introduced c. 1978.

Camellia 'La Petite'

Flowers about 4 cm wide, semi-double to informal double, pink.

Raised by Erica Mcminn, Camellia Lodge Nursery, Noble Park, Victoria, Australia as a second generation seedling of C. reticulata 'Janet Clark' × C. fraterna that first flowered in 1979.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Lammertsii'

(C. cuspidata × C. japonica)

Flowers prolific, small, single, pale whitish pink and apple-blossom-like.

Originated Dr Lammerts, California, USA.

Camellia 'Mandy'

(C. rosiflora hybrid)

Flowers miniature, semi-double, pale pink, perfumed.

Raised by Edgar R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a seedling of C. rosiflora that first flowered in 1982.

Introduced c. 1984.

Camellia 'Night Rider'

Flowers semi-double, dark red with yellow anthers, petals narrow and waxy.

Raised by O. Blumhardt, New Zealand as a cross between C. 'Ruby Bells' and C. 'Kuro-tsubaki' that was first flowered in 1980.

Introduced c. 1984.

Camellia 'Our Melissa'

Habit weeping. Flowers about 5 cm wide, informal double.

Raised by Edgar R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a chance seedling of C. pitardii var. pitardii that first flowered in 1984.

Introduced c. 1986.

Camellia 'Rosabelle'

Flowers about 6 cm wide, semi-double, pink.

Raised by Edgar R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a chance seedling with C. rosiflora as the seed parent that first bloomed in 1978.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Scented Gem'

(C. japonica 'Tinsie' × C. lutchuensis)

Flowers semi-double, pink with white petal-like stamens.

Originated Nuccio's Nurseries, Altadena, California, USA.

Introduced c. 1983.

Camellia 'Scentuous'

(C. japonica 'Tiffany' × C. lutchuensis)

Flowers about 7 cm wide, semi-double to informal double, white suffused pink with 8 petals and 16 petal-like stamens.

Raised by J.R. Finlay, Whangarei, New Zealand as a seedling that first bloomed in 1976.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Snow Drop'

(C. fraterna × C. pitardii)

Flowers miniature, single, white with pink-edged petals. ('Snowdrop')

Raised by Edgar R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a seedling that first flowered in 1975.

Inroduced. c. 1979.

Camellia 'Spring Festival'

Flowers 5–6 cm wide, informal double, pink, becoming paler towards the centre.

A chance seedling of C. cuspidata raised by Toichi Domoto, Hayward, California that first bloomed in 1970.

Introduced c. 1976.

Camellia 'Spring Mist'

(C. japonica × C. lutchuensis)

Flowers about 5 cm wide, semi-double, pink with about 13 petals.

Raised as a seedling by A.E. Longley and C.R. Parks, Los Angeles State and County Arboretum, as a cross of C. japonica 'Snow Bells' with C. lutchuensis that first bloomed in 1965.

Introduced c. 1982.

Camellia 'Tiny Princess'

(C. fraterna × C. japonica)

Flowers about 5 cm wide, single or informal double, white suffused with pink.

Raised by K. Sawada, Mobile, Alabama, USA as a seedling of C. fraterna crossed with C. japonica 'Akebono' and first bloomed in 1956.

Introduced c. 1961.

Camellia 'Wirlinga Cascade'

Flowers about 4.5 cm wide, single, pink, 6-petalled.

Raised by T.J. Savige, Wirlinga, New South Wales, Australia as a chance seedling of C. 'Wirlinga Belle' that first flowered in 1978.

Introduced c. 1987.

Camellia 'Wirlinga Gem'

Flowers about 4 cm wide, pale pink, the colour deepening on the petal edges.

Raised by T.J. Savige, Wirlinga, New South Wales, Australia as a seedling of the cross C. 'Tiny Princess' × C. rosiflora that first bloomed in 1976.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Wirlinga Princess'

Flowers 4–5 cm wide, single to semi-double with 9 crinkled petals with pale edges fading to white in the centre and deeper pink below.

Raised by T.J. Savige, Wirlinga, New South Wales, Australia as a seedling of the cross C. 'Tiny Princess' × C. rosiflora that first bloomed in 1975.

Introduced c. 1977.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Ericales
family       Theaceae
genus        Camellia L.