Camellia tsaii Hu

Species

Angiosperms > Ericales > Theaceae > Camellia

Characteristics

Shrubs or trees, 1-7.5(-10) m tall. Older branches grayish brown, glabrous; young branches slender; current year branchlets gray, densely appressed-pubescent. Petiole 3-5 mm, pubescent; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, lanceolate, or narrowly lanceolate, 5-10 × 1.5-3 cm, papery, abaxially pale green and sparsely villous along midvein, adaxially dark green, shiny, and hirtellous along midvein, midvein abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 8-10 pairs and slightly raised on both surfaces, base cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin minutely serrulate, apex long acuminate to caudate. Flowers axillary, solitary or paired, ca. 2.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 2-5 mm, glabrous; bracteoles (3 or)4 or 5, semiorbicular to broadly ovate, 0.5-1.5 mm, outside pubescent, margin ciliolate. Calyx shallowly cupular, 2.5-5 mm; lobes 5, broadly ovate to suborbicular, 2-2.5 mm, thinly leathery, outside appressed pubescent, inside sericeous, margin narrowly membranous and ciliolate, apex with a dark point. Petals 5, white, obovate to broadly obovate, 1.5-1.7 cm, basally connate for 2-3 mm, apex rounded to emarginate. Stamens 1.1-1.4 cm, glabrous; outer filament whorl basally irregularly connate for 4-7 mm into a cup. Gynoecium 1.4-1.7 cm, glabrous. Ovary ovoid, ca. 1.5 mm in diam., 3-loculed; style 1.2-1.5 cm, apically 3-parted for 4-5 mm. Capsule ovoid, ca. 1.5 cm in diam., 1-loculed with 1 seed, apex apiculate; pericarp thinly leathery, splitting into 3 valves. Seed chestnut brown, globose, ca. 1.3 cm in diam. Fl. Feb-Mar, fr. Sep-Oct. 2n = 30, 60.
Life form perennial
Growth form
Growth support free-standing
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality hermaphrodite
Pollination -
Spread -
Mature width (meter) 4.0 - 8.0
Mature height (meter) 8.0 - 7.5
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Flower color
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JanFebMar
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OctNovDec
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JanFebMar
AprMayJun
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OctNovDec
Nitrogen fixer -
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Environment

Light 4-6
Soil humidity 5-7
Soil texture 3-4
Soil acidity 2-4
Soil nutriment -
Hardiness (USDA) 8-10

Usage

Uses -
Edible -
Therapeutic use -
Human toxicity -
Animal toxicity -

Cultivation

Can be grown by cuttings.
Mode cuttings
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Minimum temperature (C°) -12
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Images

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Distribution

Camellia tsaii world distribution map, present in China, Myanmar, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Camellia tsaii threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:829992-1
WFO ID wfo-0000582728
COL ID Q9TM
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID -
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Synonyms

Camellia callidonta Camellia crassipetala Camellia tsaii Thea tsaii Thea fusigera Camellia tsaii var. tsaii