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.
A free-flowering shrub with large, flattish to cup-shaped, semi-double blooms, coloured bright red grow in spring. The petal formation is irregular, and there may be only a few golden stamens. Has oval, large, deep green leaves.
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