I'm just curious. Is a hybridizer listed for this cultivar? This is not an officially registered daylily with the AHS unless it is a 2008 registration. It sounds as if someone may have "renamed" an existing cultivar. John Shooter had a brown/burgundy daylily a few years ago that began with the name 'Chocolate' but I can't remember the correct name w/o looking it up on the database.
Sadly, unless a daylily is registered, this is just a garden name and not an official name.

Good luck!

Julie C~

Shooter has several with chocolate in the name

'Chocolate Ripples' 1992
'Chocolate Cherry Dreams' 2006
'Chocolate Dreams' 1996

Burkey has
'Chocolate Cherry Truffle' 2001 which is described as "burgundy brown blend"

there are a few others with chocolate names too.

and Skinner has
'Chocolate Frosting' but it is described as "pumpkin orange with purplish burnt amber eye"

Thanks for all the names. I think the one I was trying to think of was CHOCOLATE RIPPLES (Shooter 96) It seems to match the color description given. I grew that CHOCOLATE SPLASH for several years - it had veining. Some garden visitors thought it was pretty, but I thought it was about the ugliest daylily I'd ever seen. One day someone came here when it was blooming and admired it, and I told them to hold on a minute. I got the spade and dug the whole clump up and gave it to them on the spot! Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but that is one I daylily haven't missed at all!

No hybridizer was listed for the cultivar...here is the only info that the Dominion website had..

Here is a link that might be useful: Chocolate Candy

Hi, Chocolate Candy is [I believe] a Heemskirk intro not yet registered? It is on his website. He has introduced MacBeth, Sixth Sense, Cherry Tiger, My Reggae Tiger[great plant], Entrapment[which I grow..nice vigorous plant and hardy. I ordered C Candy as it is dormant...The only thing I might mention as far as I'm aware...Heemskirk intros here might be TC'd but so far I have found them good solid performers....Man on FIre and Pinot Noir along with Black Stocking[stunning..this bloomed this year]....are also intros from this Dutch grower....Longfields are also from him....I can let you know how Chocolate Candy performs this year if you like, cheers, lloyd

To date, this hybridizer has registered NO daylilies with the American Hemerocallis Society. He can name these what he wants, but unless they are registered, these cultivars are considered seedlings with "garden names" only. The problems arise when someone else legally registers another daylily with the same name. Then we have two daylilies out there being circulated with the same name. People who pay big bucks to buy a registered cultivar by a certain name are NOT happy if they find there is another "mongrel" out there with the same name. No one ( IMHO) should be selling unregistered daylilies as anything other than seedlings with unofficial "garden names."

Registered according to Tinkers. Black Stockings, 2006, Sixth Sense,05, My Reggae Tiger 06, Cherry Tiger 06, Man on FIre, 05, Macbeth 05...all registered by Heemskerk...cheers, lloyd

I used the spelling given on an above post ( which was apparently incorrect.) Let me re-check this with the different spelling which you gave. If so, my bad!

Hi, Floota. so sorry, I always spell this with an I when it should have an e...it should be Heemskerk...:) my goof...I can't spell....:)...cheers, lloyd

Yes, I did check this on the AHS Database and found 46 listings for this hybridizer through 2007. The Chocolate Candy one did not pop up, although it may appear once the 2008 registrations are posted. It is good to learn that this hybridizer's cultivars are registered and not just seedlings!

Here's his website

Heemskerk Plants

and below is a short article about Mr. Heemskerk with a picture. Seems he's working with a number of perennials and is best known for his hosta introduction 'Francee'--who doesn't recognize that one??

Here is a link that might be useful: article

Thanks for all the help! That is interesting that it says on the Heemskerk site that CC is supposed to be a evergreen...the info from Dominion said that it was dormant. Oh well.

I got Choco candy last year and it bloomed for me.
B E A utiful! Then I accidentally weed-whacked him...twice. Hopefully he makes a comeback.