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Camellia reticulata seedling

>From: Gay Klok <gklok@trump.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Camellia Sasanqua
>Sender: gklok@trump.net.au
>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 1997 16:48:27 +1000
>          <snip>
> They are easy to seed but may not be true to parent plant, though the ones
> we have let mature are very similar or in some cases, an improvement

This bring to my mind a notable local garden designer, Harland Hand,
who grows a reticulata Camellia called 'Budda'.  Over the years, he
found a seedling and let it grow, since he was fond of the parent.
The flower turned out to be nearly twice and large, a huge red-pink
lettuce, and with all the sum and substance of the reticulatas.  It
lasts for days and days and did not wilt or turn brown - even when I
brought several blooms into a horticultural society function and
merely laid them on a bed of foliage (i.e. no water) all evening.
And then people carried them home and found they lasted for weeks
floated in a bowl of water!!

He calls this wonder 'Son of Budda'!

 Sean A. O'Hara                     sean.ohara@ucop.edu
 710 Jean Street                    (510) 987-0577
 Oakland, California 94610-1459     h o r t u l u s   a p t u s
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