This is Donation, aym, I don't think it is terribly like it.
Can you provide a photo showing the leaves and habit?
Even saying that though, there are thousands and thousands of cultivars and it will be hard to do much more than say what species or hybrid it is. If you post another photo when the flower is more fully developed that will help too. I have the world's largest book on Camellias so I can have a look, but I suspect it will boil down to some 'likely' candidates rather than a definitive ID. It looks like a Nuccio's japonica variety just from the form of the flower, but that's not really enough--you'd need to have leaf colour, habit of plant, etc to be more certain. It looks a bit more formal than Donation, though sometimes the opening flowers can look this tidy. But when they open fully they should look like this:
Do you mean the one I posted about the other day? It was Ashwood's Helleborus x hybridus (Ashwood Garden Hybrids) Anemone Form Bicolour Shades
I just went on their website to check and lo! they are having a massive cut-price sale! Off to add this to the other thread. There are even double blacks...
I was told that there are at least 3,000 varieties of Camelia - a visiting Camellia expert was collecting pictures of all the different types in the island - there are several hundred here - mostly imported during Victorian times.
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This is Donation, aym, I don't think it is terribly like it.
Can you provide a photo showing the leaves and habit?
Even saying that though, there are thousands and thousands of cultivars and it will be hard to do much more than say what species or hybrid it is. If you post another photo when the flower is more fully developed that will help too. I have the world's largest book on Camellias so I can have a look, but I suspect it will boil down to some 'likely' candidates rather than a definitive ID. It looks like a Nuccio's japonica variety just from the form of the flower, but that's not really enough--you'd need to have leaf colour, habit of plant, etc to be more certain. It looks a bit more formal than Donation, though sometimes the opening flowers can look this tidy. But when they open fully they should look like this:
Do you mean the one I posted about the other day? It was Ashwood's Helleborus x hybridus (Ashwood Garden Hybrids) Anemone Form Bicolour Shades
I just went on their website to check and lo! they are having a massive cut-price sale! Off to add this to the other thread. There are even double blacks...
Oh, I was wrong, it's only the seeds!
Donation when fully open always shows its stamens like this btw.
I was told that there are at least 3,000 varieties of Camelia - a visiting Camellia expert was collecting pictures of all the different types in the island - there are several hundred here - mostly imported during Victorian times.