Notes on Area 10

I have redrawn the map for Area 10. The old map was pretty inaccurate and for some reason was drawn looking downhill, which seems counter-intuitive to me.

There are Camellia species here but in truth, only a few are really thriving. Many of the plants are varieties of the winter flowering “sasanquas”, plus a few other odds and ends that seemed to fit in better here than elsewhere.

Some plants are newly planted and not flowering yet, others are not thriving and don’t seem likely to flower any time soon.

The area has suffered from trees falling and causing extensive damage. Parts of it are very wet, parts very deeply shaded in summer.

C. caudata fell over in early 2017. It is still alive and hopefully will live long enough to be propagated. In 2018 it was stood up and staked and by August was making new growth. By the end of 2023 it is looking good and may flower in spring 2024.

‘Ginryû’ (10-005) This was labelled ‘Dawn’ but has ben corrected to C. x vernalis ‘Ginryû’. It is very similar to the plant of the same name at 3C-025. 10-005 appears to be virus infected, with yellow blotches on its leaves, which 3C-025 lacks, and the latter is much more free flowering.

10-012 ‘Fuyajo’ is a synonym for ‘Kon-wabisuke’, described as a blackish red, small sized single. This appears to be something else. It is not a sasanqua either, flowering in spring.

10-017. This is not ‘Hikarugenji’. Even the foliage is quite distinct from that variety, so it is not just a flower form mutation.

10-077 irrawadiensis. This species is held by many to be synonymous with C. taliensis. This plant is not the same as the plant of C. taliensis at 10-060, though very similar. I have for the time being kept them as separate species.

10-034 ‘Narumigata’ has another plant seemingly planted in the same hole as it was. The one higher up the slope is ‘Narumigata’, the other is very like ‘Rainbow’ in its flowers but the leaf is quite different from the four nearby plants of ‘Rainbow’. I have given it the number 10-078 but have not been able to identify it. 

10-036 ‘Navajo’ has died and been removed (2018) It was flat on the ground and badly strimmer damaged well before it died.

10-019 ‘Kanjiro’ was labelled ‘Hiryu’, a name used for ‘Kanjiro’ in Australia. It appears to be identical in flower and leaf to ‘Kanjiro’ at 10-023 and 10-024 so I have relabelled it as such.

10-029 ‘Kyô nishiki’. To avoid confusion with other cultivars using the same name, this is now known as ‘Higo-kyônishiki’.

10-058 ‘Showa-no-sakae’ was labelled ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ but I have been persuaded it is not. This is the second plant labelled ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ that has turned out to be something else, meaning that the collection no longer includes that variety, even in name only.