The Main Plant entry for Camellias (Camellia)

This database entry exists to show plant data and photos that apply generically to all Camellias.

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit:	Shrub
Life cycle:	Perennial
Sun Requirements:	Full Sun to Partial Shade Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences:	Mesic
Leaves:	Evergreen
Flowers:	Showy
Flower Time:	Late winter or early spring Spring
Pollinators:	Bees

Common names

Camellia
Common Camellia
Japanese Camellia

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Uploaded by memtraylor

Location: Winter Springs, FL zone 9b
Date: 2019-02-11
Rich Pink Camellia, looks just like a rose. Leu Gardens FL

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Location: Winter Park, FL zone 9b
Date: 2019-02-11
Camellia unknown at Leu Garden

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Location: Winter Park, FL zone 9b
Date: 2019-02-11
Pretty pink Camellia taken at Leu Gardens FL

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Location: Winter Park, FL zone 9b
Date: 2019-02-11
Red and White colored Camellia at Leu Gardens FL

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Location: Sarah P Duke Gardens Durham, North Carolina
Date: 2023-02-25

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Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2008-03-09

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Location: Seminole County, Florida, United States
Date: 2020-01-07
Re-upload.

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Location: Sarah P Duke Gardens Durham, North Carolina
Date: 2023-02-25
Beautiful frilly pink bloom. Plant was labelled C. japonica Lady

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Uploaded by Calif_Sue

Location: Summerfield, Florida
Date: 2023-12-22
My FIL neighbor’s camellia bloom.

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Location: Hood, Alabama
Date: 2022-12-11

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2019-01-07

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Location: Hattiesburg, MS 39401
Date: 2023-12-12

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Location: Monroe, Washington Taken by 3dogsfun in her yard
Date: 2016-03-09

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Location: Orange County, California
Date: 2023-03-04
Not sure of this variety...

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Location: Sarah P Duke Gardens Durham, North Carolina
Plant was labeled C. japonica Eleanor McCown, but bloom doesn't m

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Location: Sarah P Duke Gardens Durham, North Carolina
Plant was labelled C. japonica Elegans Champagne, but pictures ar

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Location: zone 8 North Central, Fl.
Date: 2017-12-23

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Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2021-01-13
Camellia 022a

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Location: Charleston, SC
Date: 2022-11-23
unnamed seedling Camellia

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Location: Wilmington, Delaware USA
Date: 2015-04-16

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Location: Camellia Gardens, Caringbah South, N.S.W., Australia
Date: 2015-08-06

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Location: Central Florida, my back yard
Date: 2023-01-08

Uploaded by Almostdone

Location: MS gulf coast
Date: 2024-01-14
Beautiful Blooms!

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Uploaded by Joy

Location: At a local nursery
Date: 2014-04-18

Uploaded by Calif_Sue

Location: Fountain, Florida
Date: 2013-01-24
I love the lavender edges on the petal of this bloom

Uploaded by gingin

Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-12-18

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Location: Normaltown Athens,Ga
Date: 2/14/22

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Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2020-10-21
Pink Camellia 023

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Location: Beckenham Place Park, UK
Date: 2014-02

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Uploaded by JebobaTea

Location: California State Capitol Park, Sacramento.
Date: 2016-02-01
Zone 9b.

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Location: Oceanside Harbor
Date: 2019-01-17

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2019-01-17

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-05-06

Uploaded by Joy

Location: my home in Alabama
Date: 2014-11-17
Camellia

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Location: MOBOT - St Louis
Date: 1-6-2007

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Location: Seminole County, Florida, United States
Date: 2019-12-31

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Location: Beckenham Place Park, UK
Date: 2014-03-10

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Location: Seminole County, Florida, United States
Date: 2019-12-27

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Location: Hamilton Square Perennial Garden, Historic City Cemetery, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2016-02-01

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Location: Coastal San Diego County
Date: 2018-01-21

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Uploaded by hementia

Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2018-11-27
Pink Camellia 018

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Location: Barcelona, Spain |April, 2023 (uploaded. This image is much older)
Date: 2023-04-03

Uploaded by sedumzz

Location: my yard in Alabama after the rain at dawn today
Date: 2014-11-17
Camellia leaves

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Location: Ft Worth Botanic, Tx
Date: 2017-11-18

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Uploaded by bumplbea

Location: Alabama, my yard
Date: 2014-11-17
Camellia

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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-11-29

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Location: At a local nursery
Date: 2014-04-18
A newly fallen bloom

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Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26

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Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2011-02-04

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Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: December 2015

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Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: December 2015
Both colors bloom on same plant:)

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Uploaded by Scmagnolia1

Location: Our yard, DeLand, Florida
Date: 2014-02-06

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Location: Alabama
Date: 2014-11-17
Camellia bud

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Location: In my Northern California garden
Date: 2012-04-10

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Location: Capitol Park Camellia Grove, Sacramento CA.
Date: 2018-06-13

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Location: Balboa Park - San Diego, California
Date: 2015-01-12

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Location: MOBOT - St Louis
Date: Feb 2013

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Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2008-04-01

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Location: MOBOT - St Louis
Date: 2013-02-25

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Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-28
camellia bud

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Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2011-02-11

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Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2008-12-31

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Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2012-02-08

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Location: Charleston, SC
Date: 2019-04-05
This fruit will dry out and split open in late summer or early fa

Uploaded by scvirginia

Location: Variegated White-Pink Single
Date: 2013-04-05
Photo courtesy of: MomentsForZen

Uploaded by admin

Location: Small Dark Pink Single
Date: 2013-04-24
Photo courtesy of: MomentsForZen

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Location: Pink Semi-Double
Date: 2013-04-13
Photo courtesy of: MomentsForZen

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Uploaded by hementia

Location: Linda's garden
Date: 2017-01-26

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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-02-07

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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2013-01-10

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Location: Philo, California
Date: 2015-02-16

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Location: Gulf-coast Texas
Date: 2015-01-11

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Uploaded by Cem9165

Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2017-01-25

Uploaded by scflowers

Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2017-01-31
Blooms both colors on the same plant

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Uploaded by jmorth

Location: Hotelholman/Normaltown
Dakigura and White Empress

Uploaded by Hotelholmangmailco

Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2017-02-06
These grow on the same camellia bush in my garden.

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Location: My garden in Warrenville, SC
Date: 2017-02-04

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Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-11-04

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Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-28

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Uploaded by rocklady

Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2009-02-07

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Location: Botanical Gardens of the State of Georgia...Athens, Ga
Date: 2017-02-07
Camellia Japonica - Winter Rose 001

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Location: White Semi-Double
Date: 2013-04-03
Photo courtesy of: MomentsForZen

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Location: Pink Loose Informal Double
Date: 2013-04-16
Photo courtesy of: MomentsForZen

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Location: my garden zone 7b nc
Date: 2012-03-26

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Uploaded by scflowers

Location: Charleston, SC
Date: 2019-01-07
Winter-blooming camellias that show their stamens have value for

Uploaded by scvirginia

Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-11
Camellia

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Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-28
camellia stems

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Location: zone 8/9 Lake City, Fl.
Date: 2012-02-28
camellia leaves

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Location: Our Yard, DeLand, FL
Date: 2009-01-19

Uploaded by rocklady

Location: my garden
Date: 2015-11-15
buds are developing

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Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-11-27

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Comments:

Posted by robertduval14 (Milford, New Hampshire - Zone 5b) on Apr 20, 2013 8:48 AM concerning plant:

Alabama's state flower.

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Posted by Marilyn (Kentucky - Zone 6a) on May 20, 2013 3:18 AM concerning plant:

Taken from wikipedia's page at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

"Camellia japonica is a flowering tree or shrub, usually 4.9–20 feet tall, but occasionally up to 36 feet tall. The youngest branches are purplish-brown, becoming grayish-brown as they age. The alternate leathery leaves are dark green on the top side, paler on the underside, usually 2.0–4.3 inches long by 1.0–2.4 inches wide with a stalk (petiole) about 0.2–0.4 inches long. The base of the leaf is pointed (cuneate), the margins are very finely toothed (serrulate) and the tip somewhat pointed.

In the wild, flowering is between January and March. The flowers appear along the branches, particularly towards the ends, and have very short stems. They occur either alone or in pairs, and are 2.4–3.9 inches across. There are about nine greenish bracteoles and sepals. Flowers of the wild species have six or seven rose or white petals, each 1.2–1.8 inches long by 0.6–1.0 inches wide; the innermost petals are joined at the base for up to a third of their length. (Cultivated forms often have more petals.) The numerous stamens are 1.0–1.4 inches long, the outer whorl being joined at the base for up to 1.0 inches. The three-lobed style is about 1.2 inches long.

The fruit consists of a globe-shaped capsule with three compartments (locules), each with one or two large brown seeds with a diameter of 0.4–0.8 inches. Fruiting occurs in September to October in the wild.

C. japonica leaves are eaten by the caterpillars of some Lepidoptera, such as The Engrailed (Ectropis crepuscularia). The Japanese white eye bird (Zosterops japonica) pollinates Camellia japonica."

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