Plant: October Magic White Shi Shi - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'October Magic White Shi Shi'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A low growing, bushy and spreading Southern Living Plant Collection camellia of 3 to 4 feet in each direction, chosen for a habit like the well known 'Shishi Gashira', with dense dark green evergreen foliage. Porcelain white formal double blooms open over a very long season from late fall into winter, when few other trees and shrubs are flowering. It takes full sun to part shade with medium water in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it for accents, borders, containers, low hedges, mass plantings, slopes and woodland gardens.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 4 ft tall and 4 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A low growing, bushy and spreading Southern Living Plant Collection camellia of 3 to 4 feet in each direction, chosen for a habit like the well known 'Shishi Gashira', with dense dark green evergreen foliage. Porcelain white formal double blooms open over a very long season from late fall into winter, when few other trees and shrubs are flowering. It takes full sun to part shade with medium water in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid. Use it for accents, borders, containers, low hedges, mass plantings, slopes and woodland gardens.
- Flowers
- Porcelain white formal double blooms open over a very long season from late fall into winter.
- 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
