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Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily
HOME > Plant list (植物リスト) > Theaceae (ツバキ科) > Camellia chrysantha
Camellia L. (ツバキ)Kinkacha (キンカチャ, 金花茶), golden camelliaLife form: evergreen short tree ≈ 1.5-2.5 m high Distribution: southern China (Guangxi Province) - Vietnam Habitat: forests in river valleys or along streams Flower: yellow (unitl this species was discovered in 1965, no yellow-flowered species in this genus had been known) |
Chromosome number: 2n = 30 Synonyms:
Camellia petelotii (Merr.) Sealy, standard var. microcarpa (S. L. Mo et S. Z. Huang) T. L. Ming et W. J. Zhang, leaf blade elliptic, flowers 2-3 cm in diam. |
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[1-3] at an outdoor garden in Sakuya Konohana Kan (咲くやこの花館) located in Osaka, western Japan, on February 6 2022.