1817 21 June 346/1 She wears..a Vandyck dress of a rich chocolate crimson with slashed sleeves.
1841 XXI. 444/2 The corolla is very large, of a dark chocolate-crimson colour.
1882 18 Nov. 451/3 Flowers..of a rich chocolate-crimson.
1911 (Ontario Dept. Agric.) 84 Bright vermilion red, with chocolate crimson blotch.
1996 S. Raven 125/1 Grow the aptly named..‘Black Prince’, with its tall spikes of deep chocolate-crimson.