Plant: Yuletide - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
An upright camellia reaching 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, with dark green glossy evergreen leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Single, brilliant red blooms centered with bright yellow stamens open from fall through winter and make an elegant statement in the winter garden. It performs well even in filtered shade and wants a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid, watered when the top few inches dry out. Use it as a border shrub, an informal hedge or privacy screen, an espalier, a foundation planting or a container specimen, and cut the flowers for the house.
- 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
An upright camellia reaching 8 to 10 feet tall and wide, with dark green glossy evergreen leaves 1 to 3 inches long. Single, brilliant red blooms centered with bright yellow stamens open from fall through winter and make an elegant statement in the winter garden. It performs well even in filtered shade and wants a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid, watered when the top few inches dry out. Use it as a border shrub, an informal hedge or privacy screen, an espalier, a foundation planting or a container specimen, and cut the flowers for the house.
- Flowers
- Single, brilliant red blooms centered with bright yellow stamens open from fall through 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
