Camellia oleifera New with fragrant white spring flowers

with fragrant white spring flowers and orange fruit

Plant a few in the garden and you join a small

'Julia Mackintosh' takes sun more readily than the japonicas and asks only for a sheltered spot in well-drained

holding very shiny

shrubby clump holds its shape all season

Camellia oleifera New with fragrant white spring flowersThree things to know about this camellia. First, the tea oil camellia is the most economically important non tea member of the genus. China has cultivated Camellia oleifera for over two thousand three hundred years for the oil pressed from the seeds, a light, sweetish, monounsaturated cooking oil chemically close to olive oil (around eighty percent oleic acid in both), used for cooking, traditional cosmetics, hair tonics, and the historic rust