Yennan Camellia

Found a plant with very small flowers on it in the Huntington Botanical Gardens... labeled Camellia kangdianica.. turns out that is just ...Read Morea synonym for this plant (C reticulata) despite the unusually small flowers. Same goes for Camellia chunii I found at the Descanso Botanical Gardens nearby. Oh well

This is a chinese Camellia, hardly cultivated, and an endangered species. Formerly found in large colonies in southern China, the populat...Read Moreion has decreased a lot in the last decades, and now they are in serious risk.

The leaves are large, dark green and shiny on the upper page, and pale green on the lower one. The white flowers are very big, can be even 6 inches across! They atract local and foreign collectors that don´t worry about planting it to have more flowers to sell...