Camellia reticulata hybrid cultivars

Camellia 'Arcadia'

(C. reticulata 'Mouchang' × C. sasanqua 'Bonanza')

Flowers 13–15 cm wide, salmon pink, semi-double to informal double.

Raised by Myer Piet, Arcadia, California and first bloomed in 1974..

Introduced c. 1980.

Camellia 'Betty Ridley'

(C. 'Felice Harris' × C. 'Marie Bracey')

Flowers about 11 cm wide, formal double, pinkish, opening like a rosebud, petals 73–77.

Raised by Dr W.F. Homeyer Jr, Macon, Georgia, USA and first flowered in 1969.

Introduced c. 1974.

Camellia 'Black Lace'

(C. ×williamsii 'Donation' × C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe')

Flowers about 11 cm wide, formal double, dark red with a silvery sheen with 130–140 petals with black edging.

Raised as a seedling cross by L.W. Ruffin, Mississippi, USA and first bloomed in 1965.

Introduced c. 1971.

Camellia 'Crinoline'

Flowers to 15 cm wide, informal double to rose form double, salmon pink with wavy petals.

Raised by E.R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a seedling of C. 'Lasca Beauty' that first flowered in 1980.

Introduced c. 1985.

Camellia 'Dr Clifford Parks'

(C. japonica 'Kramer's Supreme' × C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe')

Flowers about 14–15 cm wide, informal double, red with orange colourings.

Raised by Dr Clifford Parks, North Carolina, USA and first bloomed in 1970.

Introduced c. 1972.

Camellia 'Dream Girl'

(C. reticulata 'Buddha' × C. sasanqua 'Narumigata')

Flowers about 15 cm wide, semi-double pale pink with wavy, upright, irregular petals.

Raised by Howard Asper, Escodido, California, USA.

Introduced c. 1966.

Camellia 'Flower Girl'

(C. reticulata 'Damanao' × C. sasanqua 'Narumigata')

Flowers large, semi-double to informal double, pink.

Raised by Howard Asper, Escondido, California, USA.

Introduced c. 1966.

Camellia 'Francie L.'

(C. reticulata 'Buddha' × C. saluenensis 'Apple Blossom')

Flowers about 13 cm wide, semi-double, pink with irregular, wavy, upright petals.

Raised by Ed Marshall, Huntington Gardens, San Marino, California, USA and first bloomed in 1960.

Introduced c. 1964.

Camellia 'Harold L. Paige'

(C. japonica 'Adolphe Audusson' × C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe')

Flowers about 13.5 cm wide, informal double, bright red with 24 petals.

Raised by Jack Osegueda, Oaklands, California, USA as a seedling that first bloomed in 1969.

Introduced c. 1974.

Camellia 'Howard Asper'

(C. japonica 'Coronation' × C. reticulata 'Lion Head')

Flowers to about 17.5 cm wide, informal double, pink with pale green filaments.

Raised by Howard Asper, Escondido, California, USA and first flowered in 1962.

Introduced c. 1965.

Camellia 'Jean Pursel'

(C. japonica ('Damanao' × 'Mrs D.W. Davis') × C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe')

Flowers about 16 cm wide, informal double, pale purplish pink with about 23 pink-veined petals and 15–20 petal-like stamens.

Raised by Frank Pursel, Oakland, California, USA and first bloomed in 1973.

Introduced c. 1975.

Camellia 'John Hunt'

(C. reticulata hybrid)

Flowers informal double, about 20 cm wide, pale pink with 23 veined and notched petals, and 12 petal-like stamens.

Raised by John Hunt, Boronia, Victoria, Australia as a controlled cross between C. 'Arch of Triumph' and C. 'Lasca Beauty' and first flowered in 1984.

Introduced c. 1988.

Camellia 'Lasca Beauty'

(C. reticulata × C. japonica)

Flowers informal double, pale pink; petals 15, thick.

Raised from the cross C. 'Cornelian' × C. 'Mrs D.W. Davis' by Dr Clifford Parks, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA at the Los Angeles State and County Arboretum and first bloomed in 1970.

Introduced c. 1974.

Camellia 'Lovely Lady'

(C. reticulata hybrid)

Formal double.

Raised by E.R. Sebire, Wandin North, Victoria, Australia as a chance seedling of C. 'Pink Sparkle' that first bloomed in 1979.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Red Crystal'

(C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe' × C. japonica 'Wildfire')

Flowers c. 14 cm wide, scarlet, single to semi-double, filaments pink at the base.

Raised by A. Blumhardt, Whangarei, New Zealand. First flow­ered 1976.

Introduced c. 1984.

Camellia 'S.P. Dunn'

(C. reticulata hybrid)

Flowers about 15 cm wide, red, semi-double.

Raised by Frank Pursel, Oakland, California, USA. First bloomed 1978.

Introduced c. 1981.

Camellia 'Show Girl'

(C. reticulata × C. sasanqua)

Flowers pink, large, semi-double to open informal double.

Raised by Howard Asper, Escondido, California, USA.

Inroduced. c. 1966.

Camellia 'Terrell Weaver'

(C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe' × C. japonica 'Ville de Nantes')

Flowers c. 12 cm wide, semi-double to incomplete double, flame to dark red; petals thick long, fluted, 14–16, 4–5 of which are rabbit-eared.

Raised by Dr W.F. Homeyer Jr, Macon, Georgia, USA.

Introduced c. 1974.

Camellia 'Valentine Day'

(C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe' × C. japonica 'Tiffany')

Flower formal double salmon pink with rose-bud centre.

Raised by Howard Asper, Escondido, California, USA.

Introduced c. 1967.

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