Know camellia

Camellia, also known as Camellia, is the general name of many plants and horticultural varieties in Camelliaceae and Camellia. Petals are bowl-shaped and divided into single petals or double petals. Single petals are mostly original flowers, and double petals can reach as many as 60.

Camellia has different degrees of red, purple, white and yellow flowers, and even camellias with color stripes. The highest flower branch can reach 4 meters.

The flowering period is long, from June 10 to May of the following year, and the full flowering period is generally from June1-March.

Camellia is a traditional ornamental flower in China, ranking eighth among the "Ten Famous Flowers", one of the world's precious flowers and trees, and also the city flower in Chongqing and Wenzhou.

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Lovely, self-effacing, ideal love, cautious and charming.

Camellia (white): Innocent. How can you despise my love?

Camellia (Red): Natural Beauty

Cultivation history

Camellia originated in China. At the beginning of the 7th century, Japanese introduced camellia from China, and at the beginning of the 5th century,/kloc-introduced a large number of camellia varieties from China. Camellia was first introduced to China at 1739, and then to Europe and America. Today, the United States, Britain, Japan, Australia and Italy have developed rapidly in the breeding, reproduction and production of camellia, and have entered the stage of industrial production, and interspecific and interspecific hybrids and new varieties are constantly on the market.

Main value

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Landscaping: Camellia is evergreen all the year round, widely distributed and graceful, and is one of the important plant landscaping materials in southern China.

Greening: Camellia has strong adaptability to light and temperature, and can be combined with other plants such as urban green space, parks and residential quarters, city squares, flower beds and green belts.

Garden: Camellia is most suitable for landscaping. In terms of cultural connotation, it is a traditional Ruihua Jiamu and an auspicious happy tree. From the morphological point of view, camellia is evergreen all the year round and has a moderate tree shape, which is suitable for ground planting, potted plants and flower beds.

Exhibition: Camellia can form the theme of the spring flower show and is very popular. Hangzhou, Kunming, Dali, Chengdu, Wenzhou and other places have agreed to become a custom, and camellia has also become the theme of the annual flower show.

Specialized Gardens: Specialized Gardens of Camellia are often set up in domestic and foreign plant or horticultural research departments and related garden scenic spots, which are used for taxonomic, ecological and horticultural research of Camellia, and most of them have the function of open exhibition.

medical

The medicinal value of camellias was first seen in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica in Ming Dynasty, and it was expounded by Wu, a famous doctor in Qingganlong, in New Materia Medica.