Catalog Description
Spectacular, semi-double blooms, blush pink in color. Midseason to late. |
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Average Landscape Size
Moderate growing to 6 to 8 ft. tall and wide, larger with age. |
Key Plant Benefits
Spectacular, semi-double blooms, blush pink in color. Flowers make a great contrast with the glossy, dark green foliage. A prized plant for the milder regions of the U.S. Evergreen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Provide well drained soil, rich in organic matter. Feed with an acid fertilizer after bloom. Keep roots cool with a thick layer of mulch. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Slow Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Erect |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 10 (>150 to 180 days) |
| Low: | 3 (>7 to 14 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 10 (30 to 40 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 8 (10 to 20 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Filtered sun |
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Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Rosette, semi-double
| Flower Color |
| Pink |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Large blossoms December to February. |
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Propagation
| Propagation Method |
1
| Cutting grown |
| Best time to Prune |
| Spring after flowering |
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Attributes
Border Plant
Flowers for Cutting
Oriental Garden
Patio Container Plant
Shade Loving
Showy Flowers
Spring Flowering
Winter Flowering
Woodland Garden |
Foliage
Leathery, glossy
| Foliage Shape | Elliptic |
| Normal foliage color | Green |
| Underside foliage | Green |
| Juvenile foliage | Green |
| Mature foliage | Green |
| New foliage | Green |
| Spring foliage | Green |
| Summer foliage | Green |
| Fall foliage | Green |
| Winter foliage | Green |
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Plant Lore
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Plant History
The camellia clan is classified into the tea family, Theaceae and closely related to the tea camellia, C. sinensis. The genus Camellia was named by Carolus Linnaeus who named it for a Moravian Jesuit missionary Georg Kamel, who cultivated an important garden of local medicinal plants on Philippine Island of Luzon in the 17th century. There are about 80 species in the genus and all are native to eastern Asia. Kamel’s C japonica was imported into the Philippines it is native to China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Engelbert Kaempher described the red flowers in gardens of China in 1712, which was verified by Robert Fortune later in 1847. It was not until 1815 that the first imported camellia shrubs bloomed in an England, but they did not become widely cultivated until the end of the century when avid breeding began. C. japonica was crossed with two other Chinese species, the highly variable flower color of C. saluensis, and potent red of C. reticulatus. Earlier flowering was obtained through the Japanese species C. sasanqua. This variety was named for the similarity of its flower shape to that of Magnolia stellata. |
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