Camellia reticulata Lindl.

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Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Theaceae > Camellia

Characteristics

Trees or shrubs, (2-)4-15 m tall. Young branches grayish brown; current year branchlets green to pale brown, thick, pubescent but glabrescent. Petiole 6-13 mm, pubescent or glabrescent; leaf blade oblong to oblong-elliptic, rarely elliptic to broadly elliptic, (4-)6-10(-14) × (2.5-)3-5(-6.3) cm, leathery, abaxially pale green and sparsely appressed pubescent or glabrescent, adaxially dark green, shiny, and glabrous, midvein yellowish green, abaxially elevated, and adaxially level, secondary veins 6-8 on each side of midvein and raised on both surfaces, reticulate veins visible to slightly raised on both surfaces or adaxially impressed, base cuneate, broadly cuneate, or rarely rounded, margin serrulate, apex acute to shortly acuminate and with an obtuse tip. Flowers axillary or subterminal, solitary or to 3 in a cluster, 7-10 cm in diam. (to more than 20 cm in diam. for some cultivars), subsessile. Bracteoles and sepals 9-11, caducous after anthesis, green, imbricate, increasing in size from outer to inner, thinly leathery, both surfaces velutinous, margin narrowly membranous; outer bracteoles and sepals orbicular, 3-5 mm; inner bracteoles and sepals broadly ovate, to 2 cm. Petals 5-7 (often more for some cultivars), rose to pink, rarely almost white, obovate to broadly obovate, 4-6 × 3-4.5 cm (larger for some cultivars), apex emarginate; inner petals connate for ca. 1 cm. Stamens 3-4 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally connate for 1-2 cm. Ovary globose, 3-4 mm in diam., tomentose, 3(-5)-loculed; style 2.5-3.5 cm, glabrous or basally with pubescence, apically 3(-5)-lobed or parted. Capsule green turning pale brown, globose to oblate, 3.5-4 × 4-5 cm, 3(-5)-loculed with 1 or 2 seeds per locule; pericarp ca. l cm thick and firmly fleshy when fresh but 5-6 mm and stiffly leathery to woody when dry. Seeds brown, semiglobose to globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam. Fl. Jan-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30*, 60*, 90*.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 4-15 m tall. The leaves are oblong and 6-10 cm long by 3-5 cm wide. They are pale green underneath. The flowers occur singly or in groups of 3 near the ends of branches. They are 7-10 cm across.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination entomogamy
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 5.0
Mature height (meter) 10.0 - 12.5
Root system -
Rooting depth (meter) -
Root diameter (meter) -
Flower color
Blooming months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
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Fruit color -
Fruiting months
JanFebMar
AprMayJun
JulAugSep
OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

It is a tropical plant. It grows in forests between 1,000-3,200 m above sea level. In Sichuan and Yunnan. Arboretum Tasmania.
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Sparse forests, open pine forests, scrub and thickets on dry often stony hillsides; at elevations from 1,000-3,200 metres.
Light 4-8
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-5
Soil acidity 1-6
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 7-9

Usage

Uses afforestation environmental use gene source material medicinal oil
Edible flowers seeds
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.
Mode cuttings seedlings
Germination duration (days) -
Germination temperacture (C°) -
Germination luminosity -
Germination treatment soaking
Minimum temperature (C°) -11
Optimum temperature (C°) -
Size -
Vigor -
Productivity -

Images

Camellia reticulata unspecified picture

Distribution

Camellia reticulata world distribution map, present in China, Japan, and Taiwan, Province of China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:828540-1
WFO ID wfo-0000582626
COL ID Q9R6
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Thea reticulata Camellia albescens Camellia albosericea Camellia albovillosa Camellia bailinshanica Camellia bambusifolia Camellia boreali-yunnanica Camellia brevicolumna Camellia brevigyna Camellia heterophylla Camellia jinshajiangica Camellia kangdianica Camellia kweichowensis Camellia oligophlebia Camellia paucipetala Camellia pentapetala Camellia pentaphylacoides Camellia pentaphylax Camellia reticulata Camellia stichoclada Camellia xylocarpa Camellia xichangensis Camellia brevipetiolata Camellia chunii Yunnanea xylocarpa Camellia subliberopetala Desmitus reticulata Camellia reticulata f. simplex Camellia chunii var. pentaphylax Camellia pitardii var. yunnanica Camellia reticulata f. albescens