D. bholua 'Peter Smithers' — this variety can be traced to seed collected by Sir Peter Smithers in the Daman Ridge area of Nepal; the buds are dark red-purple and the flowers are pink.
Sir Peter Henry Berry Otway Smithers (9 December 1913 in Yorkshire, England – 8 June 2006 in Vico Morcote, Switzerland) was a United Kingdom Conservative Party politician.
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Smithers' Financial Times obituary suggests he was the model for Fleming's most famous character, Commander James Bond.
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It was claimed in 2011 that his death had been an assisted suicide through drinking a solution of Sodium Pentobarbital.
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A chance seedling, from the garden of Sir Peter Smithers at Vico Morcote in Switzerland, with more vigorous growth and larger flowers has been described as Magnolia "William Watson".