Plant: Shishigashira - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Shishigashira'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A low, spreading camellia with a distinctly weeping form, reaching about 4 to 5 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, with glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. A profusion of hot pink semidouble blooms with golden yellow centers opens from fall through winter. It needs an organically rich, well drained, acidic soil kept mulched to hold the roots cool, and grows well in filtered or partial shade. Its low wide habit makes it a natural low hedge, foundation cover, large scale ground cover or specimen in a shaded bed.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-10
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A low, spreading camellia with a distinctly weeping form, reaching about 4 to 5 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide, with glossy dark green leathery leaves 1 to 3 inches long. A profusion of hot pink semidouble blooms with golden yellow centers opens from fall through winter. It needs an organically rich, well drained, acidic soil kept mulched to hold the roots cool, and grows well in filtered or partial shade. Its low wide habit makes it a natural low hedge, foundation cover, large scale ground cover or specimen in a shaded bed.
- Flowers
- A profusion of hot pink semidouble blooms with golden yellow centers.
- 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
