APPLICATION
FORM FOR THE REGISTRATION OF A NEW CAMELLIAAPPLICATION
FORM FOR THE REGISTRATION OF A NEW CAMELLIA
Registration of a new cultivar should only be undertaken
when the following conditions have been met:
1) The plant has been test-grown and flowered for a
minimum of three
years to ensure that it grows well and consistently over several seasons, and has abundant flowers which open well.
2) the plant is to be propagated and distributed by
a nursery.
1) NAME & ADDRESS OF REGISTRANT
Applicant – please give name and address
2) PROPOSED NAME OF NEW CAMELLIA
a) First choice:
b) Second choice:
3) NAME & ADDRESS OF ORIGINATOR
Person who recognised the cultivar as having merit.
4) NAME & ADDRESS OF NOMINANT
Person who invents or coins the name.
5) NAME & ADDRESS OF INTRODUCER
Person who, or business which, first made the cultivar
available.
6) YEAR INTRODUCED OR TO BE INTRODUCED
7) NAME & DATE OF PUBLICATION
This applies only when a name has been described already; for example, in
a nursery catalogue or a published journal. Attach a photocopy of the relevant page if possible.
8) IF THE ORIGINAL NAME IS IN A SCRIPT OTHER THAN LATIN, GIVE ORIGINAL NAME
This applies where the original name is in Chinese,
Japanese, Arabic, etc. Both scripts are required in order to check
transliteration. Attach a copy of the original script,
please.
9) GIVE THE MEANING/ DERIVATION OF THE NAME & ITS LANGUAGE SOURCE
E.g., ‘Les Jury’ – New Zealand plant breeder.
10) PLANT PATENT/ PLANT BREEDERS RIGHTS?
Please send a copy of verification.
National Authority
Date granted
Number assigned
11) ANY AWARDS AT SHOWS OR TRIALS?
Please give locations and dates
12) PLEASE ENCLOSE OR ATTACH 2 COLOUR TRANSPARENCIES OR DIGITAL
IMAGES (Colour prints do not give good colour accuracy, but may be sent if it
is impossible to send transparencies. Images should be 300 dpi, 10 cm x 15
cm, or 4 in x 6 in)
a) Flowers on the bush
b) Close-up of a single flower
13)
DETAILS FOR A SEEDLING
Give cultivar name including species or hybrid formula of both parents where
possible. e.g., C.japonica x C.reticulata
Age now
Year when it first bloomed
Female Parent
Male Parent (if known)
14) DETAILS FOR A SPORT
Name of parent
Year first observed
Year first propagated
Method of propagation
Number of plants grown
How many of these have flowered?
How many have bloomed 100% true for at least two seasons?
15) PLANT
Growth habit (Choose from the following: fastigiate, upright, spreading, prostrate, weeping, bushy, dense, dwarf, open)
Growth rate (Rapid, medium, slow, very slow)
Location; environment (Grown under glass, shade house, or outdoors)
Propagation method (Cutting, graft, other)
16) LEAF
Colour (Light green, dark green or variegated)
Form (Please delete any non-applicable: flat, twisted, curled, keeled, margins re-curved, fish-tail)
Size (Measure lamina excluding petiole (leaf stalk) from an ‘average’ leaf)
Small: Length Width
Medium: Length Width
Large: Length Width
17) FLOWER BUDS
Shape (Round, oval, elongated, elliptic, lanceolate, oblanceolate)
Colour
18) FLOWERS
Flowering Season (Refers to typical season for the cultivar in the area from which it is to be
registered. E.g. very early (autumn), early, mid-season, late, very late)
Duration of Flowering Season(Long, Average, Short Flowering)
Abundance (Very floriferous, floriferous, moderate, spare)
Form: Please choose and circle applicable description, or delete non-applicable description:
Single Tubular flat
cup-shaped
Semi-double Flat cup-shaped hose-in-hose
Anemone Single / multiple rows of outer petals
Peony (or informal double) Loose (showing stamens) Full (no stamens)
Rose form double
Formal double Imbricated spiral tiered
Arrangement of Stamens
(Columnar, tubular, sprayed, split, dispersed among petals or petaloids, Higo)
Colour of stamens
Colour of filaments
Colour of petaloids if present
Additional Comments, if any
Flower dimensions (Width is diameter when fully open. Depth means the
distance from petal tip to base of flower.)
Size Small: Length Width
Medium: Length Width
Large: Length Width
Flower Colour (Describe colour of flower petals using RHS or other named colour chart where possible.)
Spent flower behaviour (Shatters, falls whole, remains on bush)
Changes under glass (Please note any changes between glass & outdoor
grown flowers. This applies particularly in colder climate where there may be a
significant difference)
Any other noteworthy characteristics (Include any features which distinguish this camellia from others. E.g., unusual texture, unique shape, flowering habit or arrangement of flowers on stems, outstanding lasting qualities, perfume, cold-hardiness)
19) FRUIT DEVELOPMENT
Size (mm)
Shape
Colour
Please tick:
Abundant ( )
Moderate ( )
Sparse ( )
DECLARATION
I confirm that the information disclosed in this document is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
Full name, as per signature:
Signature (if sent by post)...........................................
Date
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This form is intended for use by applicants from Europe (except for Italy), and for all other countries except Australia, China, Japan, New Zealand, and U.S.A. Applicants from those six countries please refer to information given on the ICS Website Registration page. Completed forms should be sent to the International Camellia Registration Secretary for Europe:
Andrew Simons, Wingfield House, 11 Brinsmade Road, Ampthill, Beds. MK45 2PP, U.K. or email to: a.simons "at" ntlworld.com
It will be helpful if you can also supply two (2) typical flowers and leaves to Mr. Simons.
Application does not guarantee acceptance by the Registrar.
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Issued by the International Camellia Society, the official registration authority for the genus Camellia. Form date 2 December 2009.