Yuri Panchul

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• Asakura – a Japanese sasanqua with large flat semi-double white flowers and upright growing habit
  Asakura (朝倉, あさくら) is a Japanese sasanqua cultivar with large, relatively flat semi-double white flowers and has a relatively vigorous upright growing habit. Asakura flower frequently has a pinkish edge early in the flower development. The stamens are relatively well developed, comparing to full double forms. It blooms relatively early. According to the book […]
• Interesting small-leaved bicolor seedling yuri_panchul_2005_001_chance
  I like this chance seedling because: 1. It has wavy petals similar to its possible parent Nodami Ushiro (unfortunately the seedling label was dropped, so I don’t know its seed parent for sure). 2. Is has small shiny leaves like Hiryu. 3. Elegant bicolor. 4. It has straight shoots with small internodes – nice to [...] […]
• Nokorika – a Higo sasanqua with a strong scent
  According to the book “Nippon Tsubaki – Sasanqua Meikan” (日本ツバキ・サザンカ名鑑): Nokorika. 残り香 (Lingering Perfume), from Kumamoto Pref. Deep purplish red occasionally with slender white streaks, single, medium, very early. Leaves elliptic to narrowly elliptic, medium. Upright, vigorous. The original tree survives in Kumamoto City, designated and named by Higo Sasanq […]
• The Art of Camellia Grafting. Example 1.
  The Art of Camellia Grafting. Example 1. Yuri Panchul, 2009. Suppose you have a camellia you don’t like. For example I don’t like this specimen for three reasons: I think it is mislabeled. I bought it as “Camellia vietnamensis” but a real C. vietnamensis is supposed to be a member of Paracamellia/Oleifera section of the [...] […]
• Seedling yuri_panchul_2003_024_oleifera evaluation – unsuccessful
  I decided to start writing down all seedling evaluations – even for very poor seedlings. I think it will help me to develop successful evaluation criteria. I got the seed for yuri_panchul_2003_024_oleifera not from a plant in my garden, but from Camellia Forest Nursery in 2003. The resulting seedling was blooming first time 2009.09.02. The [...] […]
• An article in The Camellia Journal about the convention of American Camellia Society
  I contributed some photo pictures to The Camellia Journal, a quarterly publications of the American Camellia Society (ACS). I made those pictures during the March ACS convention in Foster City, California. You can see one of the pictures published in the last issue of the magazine – a picture with the group of ACS attendies. [...] […]
• A new book about camellias is published in China
  A new book about camellias is published in China. It is written by Shen Yinchun 沈荫椿, a Chinese American living in the San Francisco Bay Area. I (Yuri Panchul) contributed more than 30 photo pictures to this great publication. The preface is written by Barbara Tuffy, a recent president of the American Camellia Society. American [...] […]
• The history of camellias
  Russian weekly “Novoye Vremya” (The New Times) published my article about the history of camellias in Japan, China, Europe and the United States. Российский журнал “Новое Время” (The New Times) опубликовал мою статью об истории камелий. http://newtimes.ru/articles/detail/3288/ To read my article in English using automatic translation by Google Translate, you […]
• The first book I ever read about Camellias was published in Ukrainian language
  Below is the scan of the first book I ever read about Camellias. The book was called “Travels with houseplants”, it was written by Mykola Verzilin and published in 1973 in Kiev, Ukraine in Ukrainian language. This chapter was describing both tea plant and decorative camellias. […]
• American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 3. Group pictures and the first reception.
  Continued from Part 1 and Part 2. Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. You can also read about the event on the website of the American Camellia Society. At the end of the conference I made two [...] […]
• American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 2. Gallo Camellia Garden.
  Continued from Part 1. Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. On Saturday, March 21 all the conference attendees went to the city of Modesto, California for the National Camellia Show hosted this year by the Camellia Society [...] […]
• American Camellia Society – 2009 Annual Meeting. Part 1. Bob Ehrhart’s Camellia Garden.
  Back in March 19-21 I attended the annual meeting of the American Camellia Society. This year it was in Foster City near San Francisco. During the first day we went to the garden of Robert and Linda Ehrhart in Walnut Creek, California. Bob Ehrhart’s garden is one of the largest private collections in the United [...] […]
• The religion of tea in China and Japan
  Russian weekly “Novoye Vremya” (The New Times) published my article about the culture of tea in China and Japan. To write this article I asked several question one of the leading experts on genus Camellia – Professor Gao Jiyin from from Fuyang Institute of Subtropical Forestry, China. Российский журнал “Новое Время” (The New Times) опубликовал [...] […]
• Camellia sasanqua Tai-shuhai 大朱盃
  Camellia sasanqua ‘Tai-shuhai’ 大朱盃 (たいしゅはい) meaning “Large Vermilion Cup”. According to Nippon Tsubaki　・ Sasanqua Meikan, Tai-shuhai came from Fukuoka Prefecture. The cultivar originated and named in Kurume in 1960s by Shunsuke Hisatomi. I got the cutting of this cultivar from Nuccio’s Nurseries. When the plant started to bloom on January 20, 2009, I was ama […]
• Found a Chinese website that sells rare Camellia books
  Although I don’t speak Chinese I was always curious to buy the book Monograph of The Genus Camellia 世界山茶属的研究 by Ming Tien-Lu (2000) since this is one of three main books about the botany of the genus Camellia. Two other books are A Revision of the Genus Camellia by J. Robert Sealy (1958) and Camellias [...] […]
• John Wang – a camellia hybridizer living in San Francisco Bay Area
  On January 25, 2009 I visited a well known camellia hybridizer John Wang, a Chinese American living in San Francisco Bay Area. John Wang places camellias inside the house to hand pollinate them. Room temperature increases the chance of success and no insects can interfere. John does not believe in open pollination of camellias – [...] […]
• A new catalog from Camellia Forest Nursery, Fall 2008 – my review
  Camellia Forest Nursery is a nursery in North Carolina managed by Kai Mei and David Parks. Kai Mei is a wife of Dr. Clifford Parks (one of the authors of “Collected Species of the Genus Camellia”, 2005) and David Parks is their son. Mieko Tanaka The most interesting sasanqua hybrid offered this year is a [...] […]
• Found an interesting article about a Japanese-American nurseryman Toichi Domoto
  Toichi Domoto A Japanese-American nurseryman’s life in California: floriculture and family, 1883-1992 With Introductions by Julius Nuccio and Ernest Wertheim Interviews Conducted by Suzanne B. Riess in 1992 The Bancroft LibraryUniversity of California, Berkeley http://tinyurl.com/4ohuw6 Copy at http://sazanka.org/pages/toichi_domoto This sasanqua cultivar, ‘ […]
• ‘Nodami Ushiro’ – a Higo-like sasanqua
  Camellia sasanqua ‘Nodami Ushiro’. Introduced by Domoto Nursery, California, 1934, but is originally from Japan. Stirling Macoboy believes that the name means “a backward glance” in Japanese, but he is probably incorrect. Since I cannot find this name in Japanese sources and my Japanese wife tells me that Japanese people are not likely to name [...] […]
• Camellia grijsii
  This month The International Camellia Society put two of my camellia photo pictures to the front page of their website. One is a picture of Camellia japonica ‘Kamo Honnami’ (see their website), and another is a picture of Camellia grijsii, a species related to C. sasanqua: C. grijsii Camellia grijsii (长瓣短柱茶 in Chinese) Hance (1879) [...] […]