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| | Camellia sinensis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Camellia sinensis is the tea plant, the plant species whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea. | | | Camellia sinensis plant, with cross-section of the flower (lower left) and seeds (lower right). | | | Camellia sinensis is native to Southeast Asia, but is today cultivated across the world, in tropical and subtropical regions. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_sinensis
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| | Camellia |
| | Camellia is one of the "Queens" in the flower garden, it prefers cool climate in US zone 7-8 (average minimum temperatures from 0 to 20 F). | | | Camellia is a shrub or small tree grown for its large, lustrous leaves and beautiful flowers in late Fall, Winter and early Spring. | | | Camellia flowers are semi-double or double forms in shades of white, yellow, pink, rose or purple red. |
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http://www.flowerpictures.net/camellia
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| | Camellia |
| | Camellias are large, attractive, broad-leaved, evergreen shrubs that are highly prized for their flowers, which bloom from winter to spring. | | | Camellia oleifera is a large shrub to 20 feet tall with glossy, dark green leaves and fragrant, 2-inch-wide flowers in fall. | | | Older camellia plants can thrive in full sun when they are mature enough to have their roots shaded by a heavy canopy of leaves. |
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http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC1062.htm
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| | Camellia Culture for Home Gardeners |
| | Scale insects are the most common and troublesome insects associated with camellias (Figure 13). | | | Camellia flowers are often disappointing when the plant has sustained winter injury. | | | This condition occurs on camellias transplanted from a shady to a full-sun environment. |
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| | Exlpore Descanso Gardens Events |
| | These species camellia are arranged to lead from the small flowering plants at the west, to larger flowers on the east. | | | Camellias are in bloom this time of year, with the early bloomers leading the way. | | | Camellias began to bloom in late September and will continue into Spring, but winter is the season Descanso& signature collection dazzles every visitor. |
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http://www.descanso.com/Camellia.cfm
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| | ACES Publications : ANR-0202 |
| | Camellia flower blight, or petal blight, is one of the biggest threats to camellia growth. | | | Camellias vary in color, size, and form depending on the season, location, soil, nutrition of the plant, and the aerial environment. | | | Caused by the fungus Ciborinia camelliae, formerly Sclerotinia camelliae, it infects only the flower tissue of camellias, does not spread from flower to flower, and is characterized by brown spots on the petals that spread rapidly to engulf the whole bloom. |
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http://www.aces.edu/pubs/docs/A/ANR-0202
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| | Camellias in Florida |
| | Camellias flower in the fall and winter when their display of colorful blooms is most appreciated. | | | Thrips are very small, slender insects that feed on camellia flowers. | | | Camellia plants can be selected for size and form ranging from small and irregular to large and upright. |
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http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/BODY_EP002
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| | CSPV Home Page |
| | Camellia or Azalea fertilizer may be applied at the end of the blooming and followed, if desired, by a second light application in June. | | | Camellias in this [Washington, DC] area have been relatively free from disease and insect pests. | | | The culture of Camellias requires modest attention to planting, mulching, watering, fertilizing, pruning, and spraying. |
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http://members.aol.com/camsoc1
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| | Camellia Propagation |
| | Camellia seed is best sowed immediately when the seed pot breaks. | | | Propagation of Camellias is done by seeds, cuttings and grafting. | | | A Camellia seed has a small eye where it was fastened to the seedpot. |
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http://www.uniklinik-saarland.de/med_fak/physiol2/camellia/culture/propagat.htm
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| | Camellia sinensis - Tea Plant - Theaceae |
| | Propagation: Camellia sinensis are propagated by cutting or seed. | | | The flowers are white to 1 ½ inches in diameter and are fragrant. | | | Hardwood cuttings should be taken from winter to summer, treated with rooting hormone and with bottom heat of 72 degrees recommended. |
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http://www.plantoftheweek.org/week046.shtml
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| | Camellia |
| | Camellia cuspidata - Reputed to be somewhat more hardy than the other members of the species, this plant has abundant small white flowers. | | | Camellia sasanqua: Sasanqua camellia - Smaller than japonica, this Camellia has two inch leaves and flowers, and grows only to 12 feet. | | | Camellia sinensis: tea, tea plant, tea bush - A white flowered variety, its small leaves and flowers make it better proportioned for bonsai than other Camellia species. |
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http://www.bonsai-bci.com/species/camellia.html
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| | Camellia's |
| | A popular American camellia that was released in the early 1900’s, and became an all-time favorite, the flower is beautiful light pink, medium size, spherical peony form flower that blooms early to mid-season on a plant of vigorous, upright growth and light green foliage. | | | A large to very large camellia of snow-white coloring that is relieved by a basal flush pink when the bloom first open and generally has pink stripes. | | | Large to very large, red camellia that blooms early to late in the season on a plant of average, compact growth. |
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http://www.kingsrivernursery.com/camellia.html
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| | Floridata: Camellia japonica |
| | Camellias are especially attractive and easy to grow when planted under a canopy of live oaks and pine trees that provide broken shade. | | | Camellias flower from late winter to early spring. | | | Camellias are hardy, but for extra protection, apply mulch and cover flower buds if frost threatens. |
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http://www.floridata.com/ref/c/cam_jap.cfm
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| | Ketzel Levine's Talking Plants |
| | Granted, its flowers are not as prominent as those of other camellias, in part because they're often hidden by leaves. | | | The result is a limitless number of cultivars in a range of flower forms, from single anemone to double peony. | | | Not the one with the swelling buds getting ready to bare all in early spring, no. I mean the one that blooms in the fall with the single white fragrant flowers, whose leaves have for centuries been the commercial source of tea: Camellia sinensis. |
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http://www.npr.org/programs/talkingplants/profiles/camellia.html
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| | The Huntington Botanical Gardens - The Camellia Garden |
| | Many shade garden plants accompany camellias, such as azaleas, ferns, dogwoods, ground covers, fuchsias, magnolias, etc. With great diversity in flower color, form, and size, as well as foliage and growth habit, camellias provide an endless array of beauty over a six month period. | | | Snow camellia (rusticanas) — native to a snowy region of Japan, have adapted to the weight of snow. | | | Camellia reticulatas bloom late in the season, from February to April. |
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http://www.huntingtonbotanical.org/Camellia/facts.htm
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| | AllRefer.com - camellia, Plant (Plants) - Encyclopedia |
| | camellia[kumEl´yu] Pronunciation Key [for G. Kamel], any plant of the genus Camellia in the tea family, evergreen shrubs or small trees native to Asia but now cultivated extensively in warm climates and in greenhouses for their showy white, red, or variegated blossoms and glossy, dark-green foliage. | | | Several species yield oil from the seeds, e.g., the widely cultivated C. | | | oleifera has also been used to develop cold-hardy hybrid flowering camellias. |
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http://reference.allrefer.com/encyclopedia/C/camellia.html
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| | CAMELLIA DISEASES |
| | Camellias that drop their buds year after year may have a varietal problem or a problem of location that can be solved by transplanting. | | | Camellias are one of the most desirable and well-adapted plants for Southern gardens. | | | The three most serious camellia diseases in South Carolina are camellia dieback and canker, flower blight and root rot. |
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http://hgic.clemson.edu/factsheets/HGIC2053.htm
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| | CAMELLIA |
| | Also, certain camellia varieties shed their unopened bloom buds as a result of insufficient cold during the winter. | | | Bud Drop (physiological): May occur as a result of overwatering, inadequate moisture in the soil, insufficient light, excessively high temperatures, severe freezing during the winter or a pot-bound condition of the roots. | | | Keep plants healthy by controlling diseases and insects. |
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http://plantpathology.tamu.edu/Texlab/Shrubs/camellia.html
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| | Camellias |
| | Camellias benefit from light shade in summer and protection from winter wind. | | | sasanqua, and extend the reliablity of camellias as long-term landscape plants into Zone 6b in the mid-Atlantic region. | | | Tough enough to thrive in the mid-Atlantic region as far north as U.S.D.A. Zone 6b, these lovely evergreen shrubs produce showy flowers of pink or white over a period of 4 to 6 weeks in late autumn. |
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http://www.usna.usda.gov/Newintro/camelli1.html
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| | CAMELLIA - Online Information article about CAMELLIA |
| | separate genus, Thea, is too nearly allied to Camellia to admit of the two being regarded as distinct genera. | | | Camellias are also propagated by grafting or inarching in See also: | | | Camellias, though generally grown in the cool greenhouse, are See also: |
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http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/CAL_CAR/CAMELLIA.html
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| | Camellia Cuttings |
| | Growing camellias from cutting is best done beginning in late June as spring growth hardens off. | | | Several days before collecting cuttings water all camellias that cuttings will be taken from. | | | When a box is complete gentle water the cuttings to improve contact with adjacent rooting medium and spray the cuttings with a fungicide. |
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http://www.camellia.gulfcoast-gardening.com/care/Camellia_cuttings_text.htm
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| | BOB HOPE CAMELLIA |
| | 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 with more recent introductions. | | | To extend the bloom season, plant this Camellia beside the early flowering red Yuletide Sasanqua Camellia (Camellia sasanqua `Yuletide`) and for fragrance add Mystery Gardenia (Gardenia jasminoides `Mystery`). | | | Though this Camellia can reach tree size with age, it will tolerate continuous pruning to a more compact form or into a small tree. |
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http://www.monrovia.com/PlantInf.nsf/269905a1fb059eb48825683c0080938a/69a693df8e83f6b98825684d0070bd16!OpenDocument
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| | Sazanka - Flower of the Autumn Sun |
| | Sazanka's sister, Camellia japonica is a winter-flowering plant with glamorous flowers suited for cutting flower shows. | | | It is a winning combination - roses bloom from spring to early fall, sazankas bloom from early fall to winter. | | | However sazanka does not hybridize readily with them and horticulturaly should be considered a distinctively different plant. |
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http://www.sazanka.org
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| | Camellia Society / Camellia Club , Mississippi Gulf Coast |
| | (Grafted camellias have all but disappeared from the nursery trade, but they are often the only way to obtain prized show-winning varieties.) Other activities at the show include demonstrations on preserving camellia blooms for flower arrangements by waxing; a plant raffle; talks on camellia care; and presentation of a camellia of the year. | | | During the bloom season members often bring in flowers from their garden and compare gardening notes. | | | Cultural advice includes planting, fertilizing, disease, grafting, air layering, cuttings and a camellia care calendar. |
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http://www.camellia.gulfcoast-gardening.com
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| | The Huntington Garden - Camellia Garden Honored |
| | Camellia season is in full flower in Southern California from approximately December through March, and the public is invited to see and enjoy these two internationally acclaimed collections. | | | He started growing camellias from seed in 1912 as rootstock for grafting new cultivars, and for increasing the collection. | | | The Huntington camellia collection has the distinction of having been named a participant in the North American Plant Collections Consortium, having met the stringent standards set by the American Association of Botanic Gardens and Arboreta for being an important source of rare, significant, or historic cultivars and for the size and completeness of the collections. |
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http://www.huntington.org/BotanicalDiv/CamelliaGarden.html
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| | Camellias |
| | I had a bunch of camellia cuttings that were rooted, but not ready to be put in the ground. | | | There were reds and whites and pinks and red and whites and pink and whites and rose camellias all blooming at once. | | | The blooms are all shades of pink, red, and white or variegations of those colors. |
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http://gnv.fdt.net/~laddie/sancame.htm
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| | Index |
| | It is for this reason, that the camellia is known as the Queen of Ornamental Shrubs. | | | Many have varying desirable characteristics such as exquisite flowers but perform poorly in the garden or can be more susceptible to disease than others. | | | Whether its a ground cover, screen or hedges, an accent specimen plant, espalier or container plant, there is a camellia available to make every garden great. |
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http://www.genesnursery.com
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| | Boston.com / Your Life / House & Home / Celebrating the camellia |
| | Colorful, winter-blooming camellias were traditionally considered the most beautiful flowers in China. | | | Tables will be laden with bowls of water floating hundreds of blooms of Camellia japonica, sorted and judged according to form and color. | | | A cool greenhouse is the ideal place for them, but camellias' special needs can be met in barely heated sun porches or cool basements with added light. |
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http://www.boston.com/yourlife/home/articles/2004/02/12/celebrating_the_camellia
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| | Camellia oleifera: Tea-Oil Camellia |
| | Tea-Oil Camellia is so-named because they are cultivated in their native homeland of China specifically for the seeds, from which is extracted commercial tea oil. | | | This particular Camellia species looks much like Camellia sasanqua except the dark green, evergreen leaves are a bit larger, three to five inches long and two to three inches wide. | | | Single, white, fragrant flowers are produced in late winter, and this large shrub or small tree will reach a height of 20 feet with thin, upright, multiple trunks and branches. |
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http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/ST116
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| | American Camellia Yearbook 1982 |
| | A Companion Plant to Camellias --- Marvin Jernigan...93 | | | Silky Camellia Is a Wild Eye-Catcher, Threatened and Endangered Plants of Florida from the Division of Plant Industry Gainesville, Florida...100 | | | Intergeneric Crosses within Theaceae and the Successful Hybrid- ization of Camellia japonica and C. sasanqua with Franklinia alatamaha --- W. Ackerman and Margot Williams...59 |
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| | Camellia Forest Nursery |
| | Spring Mist is one of the rare camellia that is fragrant, it is a hybrid betweem Camellia japonica 'Snow Bell' and Camellia lutchuensis, blush pink semi-double miniature with vigorous, spreading growth. | | | April Remembered is one of our more winter hardy Camellia japonicasthat we offer for Zone 6B, has a very large flower. | | | October Affair is an early blooming Camellia japonica that we named, light pink shading to white then pink again in the center, very lovely |
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http://members.aol.com/camforest/page4
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| | Asian Collection |
| | The Camellia Collection is in full splendor in mid-Autumn with the blooming of cold hardy camellias. | | | The Winter Series resulted from this work, and the surviving plant also became an Arboretum introduction called 'Lu Shan Snow'. | | | Hard winters in the late 1970s all but eliminated the original Camellia Collection. |
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http://www.usna.usda.gov/Gardens/collections/asian.html
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| | Camellia Links |
| | Research on Camellia Flower Blight in New Zealand | | | Prune--Best time to prune camellias is after spring bloom | | | Intraspecific Variation of Biological and Economic Importance in Four Wild Camellia grijisii Po |
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http://www.gulftel.com/jdwyer/camellia_links.htm
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| | Brookhaven Camellia Society |
| | If you have an interest in growing, propagating or just enjoy the variety of camellias, then this is the site for you. | | | Would you like to identify some camellias in your yard and be able to identify flower form? | | | In spite of strange weather, we would really like to have as many judges as possible and bring what blooms you can. |
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http://users.southernpage.net/~homer/Camellia/camellia.htm
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| | Camellia sinensis |
| | Analysis of 48 black tea (Camellia sinensis) samples from Oman revealed contamination with 5 species of Aspergillus niger ranging from 0.66% and 30.34%. | | | The parameters affecting caffeine extraction from Turkish tea fiber and stalk wastes were determined to be, mixing rate, water/tea ratio, temperature, time & particle size and the maximum yields were 1.16% and 0.92%, respectively. | | | Pathways activated by green tea polyphenols or (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate in normal epithelial versus tumor cells create different oxidative environments, favoring either normal cell survival or tumor cell destruction. |
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http://www.herbmed.org/Herbs/Herb177.htm
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| | Yellow Camellia/Vietnam Gold |
| | It was the really first blooming of still unnamed camellia in TamDao. | | | Many yellow and red camellias welcomed the participants in full bloom. | | | Vegetables and flowers in the Market of HoChiMinh City |
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http://web-seisan.agr.ehime-u.ac.jp/dr.yamaguchi/vietnam02/index.htm
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| | Camellia Glen Nursery |
| | Established in 1994, Camellia Glen Nursery is renowned for the extensive range of Camellia varieties, cultivars and species that it has available, and in growing Camellias that are better suited to the warm and humid weather experienced in the sub-tropics. | | | Our current stock list contains some 50 Sasanqua varieties, about 150 Japonica and hybrid varieties, a small number of Reticulata varieties and some of the species that are suited to our general area. | | | This site is specific to Camellias and includes our Camellia stock list, some basic culture notes on “how to grow Camellias in warmer areas”, an explanation on some of the Camellia species and a photo gallery of many of the Camellias we grow. |
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http://www.camelliaglen.com
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| | Clemson Botanical Garden Camellia Garden |
| | Unlike most flowering plants, the camellias burst into bloom during the winter months. | | | If you're suffering from the "winter blues," head straight for the camellia collection! | | | Like the entire garden, the camellia collection has continually grown and now contains over 300 varieties. |
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http://www.clemsonchamber.org/lifestyles/life_bg2.htm
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| | Alabama State Flower Camellia Camellia japonica |
| | Each entry includes the flower's description (the color and form of petals), cultivars' names and synonyms, Chinese and Japanese names (as a point of fact, camellias were first cultivated in China and Japan), the date of registration, parentage, flowering season, and other historical information. | | | State Flower List: List of all of the state flowers. | | | (a) The camellia, Camellia japonica L., is hereby designated and named as the official state flower of Alabama. |
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http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/flowers/al_camellia.htm
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| | at Loder-Plants.com |
| | Camellia Grove is our specialist camellia nursery with a stock about 270 varieties, of which 45 are autumn flowering Camellia sasanqua types. | | | Welcome to Loder Plants:- Home to the Camellia Grove and Hydrangea Haven | | | Loder Plants have with one of the widest ranges of rhododendrons, azaleas, hydrangeas and camellias available in Europe and also stock a selection of other plants, especially shrubs. |
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http://www.rhododendrons.com
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| | Camellia Expedition to China |
| | Growing camellias in the greater Philadelphia area is a challenge. | | | The past quarter century has seen some remarkable advances in breeding cold hardy camellias. | | | Being some 150 miles north of the "camellia belt" means that harsh winters capable of decimating entire collections of these precious shrubs arrive here occasionally. |
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http://www.longwoodgardens.org/Plants%26Horticulture/PlantExploration/China2000/Intro.htm
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| | Camellia sinensis |
| | Tea flowers are largely, if not completely, self-sterile and require cross-pollination by insects to produce seed. | | | Annual productivities in species of Camellia range from 6-16 MT/ha. | | | Only 25% of the harvest remains in dried tea, the 75% moisture having evaporated. |
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Camellia_sinensis.html
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| | Gainesville Camellia Society- Florida--growing and showing camellia flowers |
| | January 2006, and will highlight all the camellias in bloom. | | | Gainesville Camellia Society- Florida--growing and showing camellia flowers | | | The Gainesville Camellia Society is a local society in Gainesville, Florida, whose members meet in the fall, winter and spring months and who present an annual Camellia show during that period, typically the first weekend in January. |
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http://www.afn.org/~camellia
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| | The Daily Leader |
| | The Camellia Society will receive blooms for judging from 7:30 to 11 a.m. | | | Last year's event featured 50 judges and nearly 1,200 blooms, Richardson said. | | | This year's event should be far larger, Richardson said, because some of the earlier Camellia shows had to be canceled because of the damage wrought by Hurricane Katrina, which leveled many growers' greenhouses. |
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http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16056054&BRD=1377&PAG=461&dept_id=172922&rfi=6
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| | Camellia sinensis |
| | Tea—Descriptors for Tea (Camellia sinensis)—Link to the publication on the International Plant Genetic Resources Institute web site |
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http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/nexus/Camellia_sinensis_nex.html
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| | Home Page |
| | Camellias are landscape plants and are so often overlooked by gardeners mainly due to lack of information and availability of plant sources in the gardening market. | | | The original goal and the one that still remains today, is to promote camellias for their beauty and for their contribution to gardens all over the world. | | | Dues are $ 25.00 per year and membership entitles you to 4 quarterly publications of The Southeastern Camellia Digest. |
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http://www.southeasterncamellias.com
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