Plant: Daydream - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Daydream'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A sasanqua camellia with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Its single fall flowers are white edged deep rose pink with golden anthers and yellow filaments, each petal deeply notched and heavily crinkled. Like other sasanquas it prefers partial shade with shelter from full sun and drying wind, and a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it as an accent, an informal hedge or a foundation shrub where the fall bloom can be seen up close.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 14 ft tall and 7 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A sasanqua camellia with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long on slender reddish young stems. Its single fall flowers are white edged deep rose pink with golden anthers and yellow filaments, each petal deeply notched and heavily crinkled. Like other sasanquas it prefers partial shade with shelter from full sun and drying wind, and a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it as an accent, an informal hedge or a foundation shrub where the fall bloom can be seen up close.
- Flowers
- Single flowers are white edged deep rose pink with golden anthers and yellow filaments, each petal deeply notched and heavily crinkled.
- 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
