The earliest record of C. reticulata being introduced to the horticultural world outside of China, seems to trace to the one semi-double ...Read Morecultivar ‘ToTsubaki’ which left China in the late seventeenth century for Japan. It was later named ‘Captain Rawes’, and was the first reticulata to come to the Western world, making the voyage to England in 1820. The cultivar died out in China, and was reintroduced there in 1974, and given the name ‘Guixia’ (‘Returned Glory’).
The earliest record of C. reticulata being introduced to the horticultural world outside of China, seems to trace to the one semi-double ...Read More