Camellia sasanqua
Sasanqua camellia · also Christmas camellia
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Camellia sasanqua is an evergreen shrub or small tree, native to southern Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. It produces white, pink, or red flowers from September to December, and is cultivated as an ornamental and for its seed oil. It prefers mild climates.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 2,9091.3%—2.5 in
- 20.00%—1.9 in
No city in this list records planting dates for this species, so age is blank throughout.
Traits
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Mature height
- 19.7 ft
- Blooms
- Sep, Oct, Nov, Dec
Trunk diameters across every city: median 2.5 in, mean 2.8 in, 90th percentile 4.6 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Tropical & Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
- Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
Other Camellia in the catalogue
5 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
