Plant: Mine No Yuki - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Mine No Yuki'
Size: 7 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A spreading camellia of 6 to 9 feet with upright, somewhat willowy branches that fill into a rounded shrub, clothed in glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Sparkling white semidouble blooms cover the plant through the cool season, from fall into winter. Grow it in filtered or partial shade in a moist, well drained soil that is rich in organic matter and slightly acid. It works as an accent, a low hedge, a wide ground cover, an espalier or a container specimen, and it is waterwise once established.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 9 ft tall and 9 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A spreading camellia of 6 to 9 feet with upright, somewhat willowy branches that fill into a rounded shrub, clothed in glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Sparkling white semidouble blooms cover the plant through the cool season, from fall into winter. Grow it in filtered or partial shade in a moist, well drained soil that is rich in organic matter and slightly acid. It works as an accent, a low hedge, a wide ground cover, an espalier or a container specimen, and it is waterwise once established.
- Flowers
- Sparkling white semidouble blooms cover the plant through the cool season.
- 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
