111. Dalheni Rathmoreana
CODICE: 111
Morphological characteristics
FLOWER
- FLOWER
- Paeony form
- DIAMETER
- 8,0 cm
- DEPTH
- Paeony form
- SIZE
- Medium
- PETALS
- Number: 12
Shape: Rounded
Surface: Slightly concave
Margin: Incised
Color: Deep Purplish Pink (55 A) - STAMEN
- Number: 27
Disposition: Dispersed
Filament’s color: -
Anther’s color: - - PETALOIDS
- Number: 26
Disposition: Regular - VARIEGATIONS
- Type: -
Color: - - OTHER FEATURES/NOTES
- Other features/ notes: Evident veining
LEAF
- LUNGTH
- 7,3 – 8,8 cm
- WIDTH
- 3,2 – 4,9 cm
- SHAPE
- Blade: Elliptic, occasionally ovate
Apex: 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
- 111
- Origin of the mother plant
- Villa Ada Troubetzkoy – Ghiffa (VB)
- Blooming
- Period: Late Density: Low
- Where to observe the same variety
- Villa Ada Troubetzkoy – Ghiffa (VB)
- Other features
- The observed plant returned only one flower during the sampling period.
Historical and bibliographical information
- Origin
- Dutch
- Year of constitution
- 1838 circa
- Breeder
- Unknown
- Synonyms
- ‘Dahlenii’
- First known description
- Berlèse, 1843, Iconographie, pl. 246: “Flower about 10cm across, double of a scarlet crimson of a brilliance difficult to describe. The petals of the circumference, disposed in many rows, are full, cup-shaped, with touches of soft rose; those at the center are erect, a little crêped, numerous and grouped in fascicles. The corolla is rounded, broad, sometimes flat and almost regular.”
- Additional citations
- 1838, Makoy Nursery Catalogue. Berlese, 1840, 1845, Monographie. Berlese, 1843, Iconographie. P. Hillebrand, G. Bertolazzi, 2011, Antiche camelie – Parchi e giardini del Lago Maggiore, p.253.
- First known illustration
- Berlèse, 1841, Iconographie.
- Additional illustrations
- -
- Notes and remarks
- -
