Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, native to eastern and southern Asia from the Himalaya east to Japan and Indonesia.
There are somewhere between 100–250 species.
They are evergreen shrubs and small trees 2–20 m tall. The leaves are alternately arranged, simple, thick, serrated, usually glossy, and 3–17 cm long. The flowers are large and conspicuous, 1–12 cm diameter, with (in natural conditions) 5–9 petals; colour varies from white to pink and red, and yellow in a few species.
An evergreen, spreading shrub with large, oval, leathery green leaves where in late spring, large, peony-shaped, twisted petalled flowers in shades of light purple and dark red.
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