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Thursday 11 May 2017

FFF285 - CAMELLIA

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100–250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. The genus was named by Linnaeus after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, though he never described a camellia.

This genus is famous throughout East Asia; camellias are known as cháhuā (茶花) in Chinese, "tea flower", an apt designation, as tsubaki (椿) in Japanese, as dongbaek-kkot (동백꽃) in Korean and as hoa trà or hoa chè in Vietnamese. Of economic importance in the Indian subcontinent and Asia, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage, tea. The ornamental Camellia japonica, Camellia oleifera and Camellia sasanqua and their hybrids are represented in cultivation by a large number of cultivars.

This is a very old shrub in a neighbour's garden, which nevertheless flowers prolifically and early in the season, in late Autumn. It is enjoying the warm sunshine of a lovely fine Melbourne Autumn day in April. I am not sure of the cultivar, but it could be "Mouchang".

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9 comments:

  1. Interesting to read its different names and splendid capture by you on the blossom

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  2. What a gorgeous camellia! I love the semidouble ones and the colour is divine!

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  3. So pretty in pink! Thanks for hosting!

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  4. So beautiful, I wish, I had luck with them here -
    Have a great weekend, thanks for hosting

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  5. Hello Nick,
    what a beautiful blossom. I love camellias ♥
    Have a nice weekend,
    greeting
    moni

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  6. Love camellias! I wish I could grow them in Wisconsin.

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  7. Hi Nick!

    How wonderful and she is doing well in the blue sky!

    best regards

    Anne

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