110. Duc de Bretagne
CODICE: 110
Morphological characteristics
FLOWER
- FLOWER
- Formal double
- DIAMETER
- 6,8 – 8,0 cm
- DEPTH
- Formal double
- SIZE
- Small
- PETALS
- Number: 38 - 55
Shape: Rounded (outer petals), elliptical (inner petals)
Surface: Flat
Margin: Incised
Color: Strong Purplish Red (58 C) - STAMEN
- Number: 0
Disposition: -
Filament’s color: -
Anther’s color: - - PETALOIDS
- Number: 0
Disposition: - - VARIEGATIONS
- Type: Stripes and marblings
Color: White (155 A) - OTHER FEATURES/NOTES
- Other features/ notes: Evident veining
LEAF
- LUNGTH
- 8,5 – 8,8 cm
- WIDTH
- 4,0 – 4,3 cm
- SHAPE
- Blade: Elliptic
Apex: Acute, occasionally acuminate
Margin: Briefly serrated - COLOR
- Upper page: 147 A
Lower page: 146 A
Plant observed
- Location
- San Secondo di Pinerolo, Park of Miradolo Castle (TO)
- Number
- 110
- Origin of the mother plant
- Camellia Park in Locarno (Ticino Canton - CH) – N. 5731
- Blooming
- Period: Medium late - late Density: Low
- Dove osservare la stessa varietà
- -
Historical and bibliographical information
- Origin
- French
- Year of constitution
- 1846 circa
- Breeder
- M. Drouard – Nantes - France
- Synonyms
- ‘Bretagne’, ‘Duke of Britain’
- First known description
- Van Houtte, 1846-1847, Catalogue, 27:23: “Flower dense, exceptionally well imbricated, of a most beautiful vivid rose, striped and spotted with white.”
- Additional citations
- Verschaffelt, 1848, Nouvelle Iconographie, Book III, pl.III.
- First known illustration
- Verschaffelt, 1848, Nouvelle Iconographie, Book III, pl.III.
- Additional illustrations
- -
- Notes and remarks
- -
