Thomas Walter Savage
Named for the patriarch of Australian camellia scholarship — T.J. Savige, who compiled the International Camellia Register itself.
Named for and originated by Thomas James Savige of Wirlinga, NSW — the pioneering Australian camellia scholar who compiled the International Camellia Register, the very reference work in which this cultivar is documented. The chance seedling first flowered in 1972 and was registered in 1995. The red flowers range from informal double to anemone form, twelve centimeters across by four deep, with twenty-five to thirty petals and thirty-five to forty-five petaloids. Growth is vigorous and spreading with deep green, semi-matt, round to wide elliptic leaves. Listed locally as 'Thomas Walter Savage' and registered as 'Thomas Walter Savige.' Source: International Camellia Register.