Bicolor, Cultivar, Double, Formal, Globular, Hybrid, Pink, Pink border, Seedling, Spreading, Upright, White

Американское Общество Камелий одобрило заявку на регистрацию двух сортов Camellia sasanqua ‘Silicon Valley’ и ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ выведенных Юрием Панчулом

У меня большое событие – пришло письмо из Американского Общества Камелий, что они официально зарегистрировали два сорта камелий, которые я вывел, после 20 лет отбора и оценки нескольких сотен сеянцев. Я мечтал быть создателем новых сортов цветов с детства, когда я читал роман Дюма “Черный Тюльпан”, книжку про селекционера георгин […]

Bicolor, Cultivar, Double, Formal, Globular, Hybrid, Pink, Pink border, Seedling, Spreading, Upright, White

The American Camellia Society approved for registration two new Camellia sasanqua cultivars: ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ originated by Yuri Panchul

The American Camellia Society approved for registration two new Camellia sasanqua cultivars: ‘Silicon Valley’ and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ originated by Yuri Panchul. ‘Silicon Valley’ produces rare, for a sasanqua, formal double flowers, and ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’ makes globular loose peony-shaped flower, especially when grown in semi-shade. Both plants tolerate sun much better […]

Crimson, Dwarf, Hybrid, Pink, Seedling, Single, Slow growing

A new Sasanqua seedling with unusually short internodes and long leaves

A description from Backyard Hybridizer – an article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017: “Camellia hybridization is not only about flowers. The value of some seedlings is in unusual leaves. A seedling YP0032, with the tentative name ‘Sunnyvale Dark Knight’, does not even look like a typical camellia. […]

Bicolor, Double, Globular, Seedling, Spreading, Upright

A new Sasanqua seedling that attracts attention with bright globular shape flowers

My new Camellia sasanqua seedling: Yuri Panchul YP0044, tentative name ‘Sunnyvale Carnival’. It was praised by well-known nurserymen and camellia collectors Tom Nuccio, Daniel Charvet and Brad King. UPD: This seedling was officially approved for registration with the American Camellia Society on January 9, 2020, ACS registration number 3175. The […]

Bicolor, Columnar, Crimson, Double, Drooping, Dwarf, Formal, Globular, Hybrid, Hybridizers, Pink, Seedling, Single, Slow growing, Species, Spreading, Striped, Upright, Variegated flowers, Variegated leaves, White

Backyard Hybridizer – an article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017 – full text

Backyard Hybridizer An article by Yuri Panchul in American Camellia Yearbook 2017 Growing your own seedlings is an intriguing addition to one’s camellia hobby. You don’t have to be a nurseryman to hybridize, select, register your own cultivars, and then market them to the camellia-growing community. You can do it […]

Bicolor, Cultivar, Single, Striped, Variegated flowers

‘Panaché de Gaujacq’ – one of only four striped sasanquas I ever saw

A couple years ago I went to Nuccio’s and Tom Nuccio gave me a scion of a rare Camellia sasanqua ‘Panaché de Gaujacq’, This is only one of four striped sasanquas I ever saw: ‘Stars’N’Stripes’ from Nuccio’s, ‘Autumn Carnival’ from Camellia Forest Nursery, ‘Panaché de Gaujacq’ and my own seedling […]

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A new sasanqua seedling with “rabbit ear” petals

A new Camellia sasanqua seedling originated by Yuri Panchul (Yuri Panchul #0148). The flower is pink, irregular double, medium size, sometimes include “rabbit ear” petals. The growth habit is spreading. Similar cultivars include ‘Showa-no-sakae’ and ‘Rosette’ but they don’t form “rabbit ear” petals. Новый сеянец камелии горной (Camellia sasanqua), временное […]

Double, Formal, Pink, Seedling, Upright

A new sasanqua seedling with flat formal double pink flower and upright growth habit

A new Camellia sasanqua seedling originated by Yuri Panchul (Yuri Panchul #0138). The flower is pink, formal double, quite flat and relatively small (45-50 mm). The leaves are on smaller side (45×25 mm), the branches are sturdy and the growth habit is upright. A similar cultivar is ‘Chansonette’ but ‘Chansonette’ […]

Botany, Cultivar, Dwarf, Giveaway, Slow growing, Species, Spreading, White

Featured annual giveaway: ‘Tiny Gem’

This new little camellia looks very unusual for anybody except probably a hardcore Camellia botanist. The flowers of ‘Tiny Gem’ are tiny, stamens have orangish tint, small dark leaves are unusually serrated, stem nodes and internodes do not look like anything in japonica-sasanqua-reticulata world. In addition, ‘Tiny Gem’s’ growth habit […]

Botany

Camellia sasanqua botany

Camellia sasanqua botany (with pictures) Yuri Panchul, June 2003 Camellia sasanqua ‘Shikoku Stars’. A wild variety. Camellia miyagii Contents Taxonomy Species Compatibility Chromosomes Books Articles Camellia puniceiflora Camellia brevistyla var. rubida Taxonomy There are three most recent classification systems of the genus Camellia frequently referred in Camellia literature: Sealy 1958 […]