(C.japonica). The first description located is in van Houtte Catalogue, 1865-1866,

110:20 as ‘Margarita Caleoni’: Very bright, pomegranate red, numerous petals, well

imbricated and in his 1879-1880 Catalogue, 184:238: Beautiful imbricated flower, rounded

petals, of a beautiful rose, shaded with vivid carmine, all first class.. This very popular

camellia has suffered innumerable misspelling of its name, including the following: ‘Margaret

Carbone’, ‘Margarete Carbon’, ‘Margarita Calcioni’, ‘Margarita Calceoni’, ‘Margarita

Caleoni’, ‘Margarita Coleoni’, ‘Margarita Coleonie’, ‘Margarita Colsoni’, ‘Margharita’,

‘Margharita Calceomie’, ‘Margharita Caleone’, ‘Margharita Caleoni’, ‘Margharita Caleonia’,

‘Margharita Caleonie’, ‘Margharita Calconi’, ‘Margharita Coleoni’, ‘Margherita Caleonie’,

‘Margherita’, ‘Margherita Calconi’, ‘Margherita Caleoni’, ‘Margherita Caleonie’, ‘Margherita

Colleoni’, ‘Marguerita Caleoni’, ‘Marguerite Calconie’, ‘Marguerite Caleonie’, ‘Marguerite

Caleoni’, ‘Marguerite Celleoni’, ‘Marguerite Carbon’, ‘Margurita Coleonia’, ‘Mad.

Cealonia’, ‘Marguerite Calconia’, ‘Margaret Calleoni’. Synonyms: ‘General Douglas

MacArthur’, ‘Red Queen’, ‘Campbelhi’, ‘Tokayama’(South), ‘Margherita Caleoni Red’,

‘Margherita Coleoni No.2’ Pseudonym: ‘Campbellii’. Sport: ‘Margherita Coleoni

Variegated’. Colour Photo, Fairweather, 1979, Rhododendrons & Azaleas, p.123. Krussman,

1976, Manual of Cultivated broad-leaved Trees and Shrubs, p.20, erroneously equated

Margherita Coleoni with ‘Campbellii’. Hillebrand of Pallanza reports that the camellias on

sale under the names ‘Margherita Coleoni’ and ‘Francesco Ferruccio’ are the same varieties

although originally different cultivars.