Plant: Apple Blossom - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Apple Blossom'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dense, upright sasanqua camellia growing to roughly 10 feet tall and wide, clothed in glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Profuse pink edged white blooms with yellow stamens cover the plant from fall through winter, when little else is flowering. It performs best in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and on the acid side. Its density suits it to high profile foundation plantings, hedges, screens, espalier and large containers.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 10 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A dense, upright sasanqua camellia growing to roughly 10 feet tall and wide, clothed in glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Profuse pink edged white blooms with yellow stamens cover the plant from fall through winter, when little else is flowering. It performs best in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and on the acid side. Its density suits it to high profile foundation plantings, hedges, screens, espalier and large containers.
- Flowers
- Profuse pink edged white blooms with yellow stamens open from fall through winter.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, glossy leathery elliptical to ovate leaves 1 to 3 inches long with serrate margins, dark green and long lasting.
- Fruit
- A loculicidal woody capsule about 1 inch long, ripening in fall.
- Bark & stems
- Slender stems, often reddish to purplish when young.
- Pruning
- Camellias require very little pruning except for the removal of damaged branches; severe cutting back is done from mid February to about May 1, after flowering.
- Native range
- Japan
