Cultivar Type：For Ornamental
Scientific Name：Camellia japonica 'Madame Cachet'
M. de Cachet
Mariotti Catalogue, 1924, p.16. Abbreviation for Madame Cachet.
van Houtte Catalogue. 1873-1874, 150:32. Abbreviation for Madame Cachet.
van Houtte Catalogue No.106, 1909. Abbreviation and orthographic error for Madame Cachet.
Hume, 1946, Camellias in America, p.334. Orthographic variant for Madame Cachet.
Clibrans Nursery Catalogue, 1956-1957, p.4. Orthographic error for Madame Cachet.
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» English Description
Lemaire, ed., 1872, L’I1lustration Horticole, vol.19, p.241, pl.103 as ‘Mme Cachet’: A good shaped bush with average sized leaves, acute apex, serrate, thick, flat and strong, and of a good colour. The flowers are large with the petals regularly imbricated, orbicular with a notched apex. The colour is white with a transparent flesh tint, some petals touched with fine stripes of deep pink. This variety was originated from seed by M. A. Cachet of Angers, France. Abbreviations: ‘Mad. Cachet’, ‘Mme Cachet’. Orthographic errors: ‘Mme Cochet’, ‘Mad. Cochet’, ‘M.de Cachet’, ‘Souv. Madame Cochet’. Orthographic variant: ‘Madam Cachet’, ‘Madame Cacket’. Sport: Madame P. de Pannemaeker. The cultivar described in SCCS., Camellia Nomenclature and The Camellia. Its Culture and Nomenclature from 1947 and on, is not the valid variety, as it is a semi-double, not a formal double as shown in all early illustrations. This would seem to have originated with McIlhenny’s release of an erroneous variety as listed in 600 Varieties of Camellias, 1937.