Plant: Yume - Camellia sas.
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Yume'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen shrub in the tea family, with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long and serrate margins on slender reddish young stems. Fragrant, showy saucer shaped flowers 1 to 3 inches across, carrying 7 to 20 petals, open from fall into winter when little else is blooming. It grows well in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid, and tolerates deer, drought and salt once established. Use it for hedges, screens, foundation plantings and large containers.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 14 ft tall and 7 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-9b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen shrub in the tea family, with glossy, leathery dark green leaves 1 to 3 inches long and serrate margins on slender reddish young stems. Fragrant, showy saucer shaped flowers 1 to 3 inches across, carrying 7 to 20 petals, open from fall into winter when little else is blooming. It grows well in partial shade sheltered from full sun and drying wind, in a moist, well drained soil rich in organic matter and slightly acid, and tolerates deer, drought and salt once established. Use it for hedges, screens, foundation plantings and large containers.
- Flowers
- Fragrant, showy solitary flowers 1 to 3 inches across with 7 to 20 petals open in a saucer shape from 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
