Plant: Kanjiro - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia hiemalis 'Kanjiro'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A dense, semi weeping camellia reaching 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, with glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Cerise to rose pink semidouble flowers, shading to rose red at the petal edges around golden yellow stamens and carrying a slight fragrance, open from fall into winter. It grows best in filtered or partial shade in a moist, well drained, organically rich and slightly acid soil. The arching habit suits foundation plantings, informal hedges, screens, espalier and Asian or woodland gardens.
- 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, semi weeping camellia reaching 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, with glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Cerise to rose pink semidouble flowers, shading to rose red at the petal edges around golden yellow stamens and carrying a slight fragrance, open from fall into winter. It grows best in filtered or partial shade in a moist, well drained, organically rich and slightly acid soil. The arching habit suits foundation plantings, informal hedges, screens, espalier and Asian or woodland gardens.
- Flowers
- Cerise to rose pink semidouble flowers shade to rose red at the petal edges around golden yellow stamens, with a slight fragrance.
- 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
