There is not the remotest reason for these two taxa to become confused. I should probably put my hand up and admit my culpability inasmuch as when I was working on a nursery and selling camellias, we had a variety labelled Camellia pitardii which I knew even then to be wrong. We were buying … Continue reading ‘Ginryû’ & pitardii.
Month: February 2018
New season, new puzzles.
There is at Mount Edgcumbe a plant labelled Camellia pitardii, a name which I am as certain as I can be is wrong. That's the easy bit; the challenge now is to identify it correctly. It seems to me to bear a very close resemblance to another plant in the collection that is labelled Camellia … Continue reading New season, new puzzles.