The Probert Encyclopaedia of Nature

CAMELLIA

Camellia is a genus of Asiatic evergreen trees and shrubs belonging to the family Ternstroemiaceae including the shrubs from which tea is obtained. The members have showy flowers and elegant dark-green, shining, laurel-like leaves and named from George Joseph Kamel, a Moravian Jesuit. The Camellia japonica, in Japan and China, is a lofty tree of beautiful proportions. It is the origin of many double varieties of our gardens. Besides this species, the Camellia Sasanqua, with small white scentless flowers, and the Camellia reticulata (net-veined), with its large peony-like flowers, are cultivated in Europe.
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