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Camellia japonica JAPANESE CAMELLIA
The state flower of Alabama is found in the wild on the mainland of China, south and eastward to Taiwan, Southern Japan and the Korean peninsula. Winter foliage is shiny and a deep green hue, producing symmetrical rose-like flowers in spring. Resembling a rose it is sometimes called the rose-of-winter. This shrub can be trained as a tree but left as a shrub it can still reach massive sizes of up to 35 feet tall and more than 200 feet wide. In cultivation this does not happen as they are normally pruned regularly. There are 2000 cultivars of camellia japonica. The first description was taken in 1692 by Engelbert Kaempfer in Japan while serving as chief surgeon for the Dutch East India Company. Although native to large parts of Southeast Asia, it was because of this original discovery location that the famed Carl Linnaeus designated this species Camellia japonica, in 1753. |
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