Area 5D – Notes.

‘Bonomiana’. (5D-003) The register description is formal double, pure white background with bands and speckles of bright carmine. This bush produces a variety of colour types so I’m not sure what it really is.

‘Campsii Alba’. (5D-004) The register description is “full, spherical, regular and formed like a perfect rosette.” 7-8 rows of petals, rounded, close set, regularly imbricated from circumference to centre”. This could well be right though it is reluctant to open fully. Annoyingly, if it is correct, 5B-004 and 5C-003 are not, they being what I have thought of as ‘Campsii Alba’ for many years.

‘Comte de Gomer’ (5D-014) was labelled as ‘Vittorio Emanuele II‘. What appears to be the same variety was in the collection under a variety of names; ‘Comte de Gomer’ seems to have the best chance of being correct, if only because the others were very clearly wrong.

‘Contessa Samailoff’. (5D-005) Register description says pink with central white stripe, this is dark red. Very different from camellias.pics picture, but that lacks central stripe.

The two plants of ‘Cornish Snow’, (5D-016 & 5D-017) along with a group of ‘Donation’, were not originally included as part of this, or any other, section. One ‘Cornish Snow’ was labelled ‘Cornish Snow Winton’, an invalid name for ‘Winton’.

‘Fatima’. (5D-006 & 5D-007) Register description is deep red, perfectly imbricated. I wouldn’t say these two are deep red.

‘Tamzin Coull’. (5D-015) Was planted in 2017 as ‘Jules Verne’, which when it started flowering, was clearly wrong. It is the same as the plant of ‘Tamzin Coull’ at 4F-055. It’s still quite small so could perhaps be moved from this European section.