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Plant: Pink Perfection - Camellia jap.

Camellia jap. · Camellia japonica 'Pink Perfection'

$48.00

Size: 3 gal

Light

Part Shade

Bloom

WinterSpring

Mature size

13 ft tall10 ft wide

More about this plant

'Pink Perfection' is a cultivar of Japanese camellia, a slow growing evergreen shrub in the tea family that forms a dense, erect, columnar to pyramidal plant roughly 10 to 13 feet tall and 5 to 10 feet wide. Glossy, leathery, dark green leaves 3 to 6 inches long carry the plant year round, and solitary cup shaped flowers 3 to 6 inches across with 7 to 20 petals open in winter and spring. It wants partial shade with only 2 to 6 hours of direct sun, shelter from drying winds, and a moist, well drained, acidic soil rich in organic matter. Use it for foundation plantings, screens, hedges and accent groupings in the Mid South, where it is hardy in USDA zones 7 to 9.

Part Shade
Grows to 13 ft tall and 10 ft wide
Blooms in winter, spring
Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
Evergreen foliage

Plant description

'Pink Perfection' is a cultivar of Japanese camellia, a slow growing evergreen shrub in the tea family that forms a dense, erect, columnar to pyramidal plant roughly 10 to 13 feet tall and 5 to 10 feet wide. Glossy, leathery, dark green leaves 3 to 6 inches long carry the plant year round, and solitary cup shaped flowers 3 to 6 inches across with 7 to 20 petals open in winter and spring. It wants partial shade with only 2 to 6 hours of direct sun, shelter from drying winds, and a moist, well drained, acidic soil rich in organic matter. Use it for foundation plantings, screens, hedges and accent groupings in the Mid South, where it is hardy in USDA zones 7 to 9.

Flowers: Solitary cup shaped flowers 3 to 6 inches across with 7 to 20 petals, borne in winter and spring.
Foliage: Simple alternate leaves, elliptical to ovate, 3 to 6 inches long and 1 to 3 inches wide, glossy, leathery, dark green with serrate margins.
Fruit: A brown capsule less than 1 inch long and wide.
Bark & stems: Stems are dark brown, covered with blackish lenticels, with crescent shaped leaf scars.
Pruning: Needs very little pruning beyond removing damaged branches. Severe cutting back with no leaves left can be done safely from mid February to about May 1.
Native range: China, Korea, Central and Southern Japan