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Camellia crapnelliana
Also called Crapnell's Camellia
Crapnell's camellia is a small tree of 5 to 7 metres native to Hong Kong and south-eastern China, with thick leathery leaves and solitary terminal flowers. It is rarely grown outside its native range and is hard to propagate by grafting, so it is more of a specialist collector's plant than a common garden shrub.
Camellia crapnelliana, Crapnell's camellia (Chinese: 紅皮糙果茶 or 克氏茶), is a flowering Camellia native to Hong Kong and other parts of south-eastern China.
In 1903, the species was first collected and described by W. J. Tutcher from Mount Parker, Hong Kong; only one plant was found at that time.
It is distributed in Hong Kong on Mount Parker, and in Mau Ping on Ma On Shan peak. It is also distributed in Guangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang in China.
The seed oil is edible.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Camellia crapnelliana by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
