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Demo Cultivar A
Demo Cultivar L
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The International Camellia Register is now available to all interested parties, on line, with no charge. It includes all camellias registered and listed in publications since the publication of the ICR Supplement, in 1998. A second supplement is planned for publication in 2010; this will supercede the first supplement, including information in the first and bringing everything else up-to-date. You can access the Register with either of the following two urls: www.camellia-international.org or www.camellia-international.net Please note the following important information about searching the register. Search and Entry List Facilities When using the Search or Entry List features, please note that the software used does not recognise hyphens, which often form part of the valid names of Japanese cultivars. Thus, to search for Tama-no-ura you will have to enter Tamanoura. Likewise any names that you find by searching will not contain hyphens. This may also pose some initial confusion about sizes: flowers will accurately be 10-12.5 cm in diameter, for example, not 1012.5 cm. The valid name for each such cultivar is that given in the alphabetical PDF lists of the Web Register. |
The International Camellia Register Supplement
The International Camellia Society, 1998
By the International Registrar of the Genus Camellia: Thomas J. Savige,
Wirlinga, NSW, Australia.
1 volume, 386 pages, limited edition.
ISNB 0 646 346 946
A limited number of sets -- the two volumes of the Register plus the Supplement -- are
still available,
at the price of U.S. $100.00 or £54.00 per set.
To obtain a copy, contact Arthur P. Landry, 10522 Ferncliff Ave., Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70815,
U.S.A., or Andrew Simons, Wingfield House, 11 Brinsmade Road, Ampthill,
Beds. MK45 2PP, U.K.
In April 2008, the International Camellia Society -- since 1962 the International Registration Authority for the genus Camellia -- nominated Neville Haydon as International Camellia Registrar. He has been duly appointed by the Council of the International Society for Horticultural Science. His contact details are: 4/6 Ingram Street, Papakura, New Zealand. E-mail: nevhaydon "at" xtra.co.nz
At the ICS Congress in Cornwall in April 2008, the directors approved the publication of an updated hard-copy Second Supplement to the International Camellia Register, to be published in 2010. This Supplement will replace the first Supplement, adding all registration, corrections, and publishing of camellia names gathered since the closing deadline for the first Supplement.
The International Camellia Register itself will not be republished, but will stand as the historical publication of record.
The register is the culmination of work begun in the 1950s to collect all available written information on camellia cultivars, and to sort out valid names, synonyms, etc, with a description and history of more than 30,000 entries. The Register and Supplement also list and briefly describe the more than 200 Species of camellia, as of 1998. For general information read the Foreword, the Acknowledgements, and the Preface of the Register. For proper use it is necessary to look into the Explanation of text and abbreviations. These help clarify the role of a genus registrar: what a registering body is authorized to do and should do, but also importantly, what it does not have the authority to do.
Such a work as the International Camellia Register will always be open to amendments and corrections -- error and omissions will always exist in such a comprehensive list, no matter how carefully checked, and in view of further data coming to light from previously unknown literature and catalogues. The first supplement to the International Camellia Register corrected many errors, but others undoubtedly still exist in the records. Hence our continued plea to readers to notify the Registrar of any further data or information available to the reader, as well as errors in this compilation, all with supporting material or explanations of corrections, so that this information may be included. Corrections will be made in the Web Register as speedily as possible; information on new cultivars will be added to it periodically.
Cultivar listings are given as a demo here:
Cultivar A* with some pictures, and
Cultivar L*, which looks like a page of the published register.
If you desperately need information on the International Camellia Register, contact pat.short "at" camellia-ics.org