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Camellia chrysantha (Hu) Tuyama






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Camellia L. (ツバキ)
Kinkacha (キンカチャ, 金花茶), golden camellia
Life 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
Camellia nitidissima C. W. Chi

var. petelotii, leaf blade oblong-elliptic to oblong, flowers 5-6 cm in diam
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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Camellia chrysantha grown in a greenhouse


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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.

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