129. Margherita Colleoni
CODICE: 129
Morphological characteristics
FLOWER
- FLOWER
- Formal double
- DIAMETER
- 9,0 cm
- DEPTH
- Formal double
- SIZE
- -
- PETALS
- Number: 72
Shape: Rounded (outer petals), elliptical (inner petals)
Surface: Concave
Margin: Wavy, rarely fringed
Color: Deep Pink (52 B) - STAMEN
- Number: 0
Disposition: -
Filament’s color: -
Anther’s color: - - PETALOIDS
- Number: 0
Disposition: - - VARIEGATIONS
- Type: Stripes
Color: White (155 B) - OTHER FEATURES/NOTES
- Other features/ notes: Evident veining
LEAF
- LUNGTH
- 9,5 – 10,0 cm
- WIDTH
- 5,0 – 6,0 cm
- SHAPE
- Blade: Ovate, occasionally elliptic
Apex: Acuminate
Margin: Deeply serrated - COLOR
- Upper page: 147 A (virosis 160 B)
Lower page: 146 A (virosis 162 A)
Plant observed
- Location
- San Secondo di Pinerolo, Park of Miradolo Castle (TO)
- Number
- 129
- Origin of the mother plant
- Villa Anelli (Oggebbio – VB) – N. 122
- Blooming
- Periodo: Medium early Densità: Low
- Where to observe the same variety
- Locarno Jardin des plantes de Nantes Villa Anelli – Oggebbio (VB) Villa Borrini (LU)
- Other features
- The observed plant yielded only one flower during the period of sampling.
Historical and bibliographical information
- Origin
- Italian
- Year of constitution
- Unknown, prior to 1865
- Breeder
- Unknown
- Synonyms
- ‘Campbellii’, ‘General Douglas MacArthur’
- First known description
- Van Houtte, 1865-1866, Catalogue, 110:0: “Very bright, pomegranate red, numerous petals, well imbricated.”
- Additional citations
- Van Houtte, 1879-1880, Catalogue, 184:238. G. Cattolica, A. Lippi, P.E. Tomei, 1992, Camelie dell’Ottocento in Italia, p.69. Regione Piemonte, 2000, Camelie dell’Ottocento nel Verbano, p.156-157.
- First known illustration
- -
- Additional illustrations
- -
- Notes and remarks
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