Camellia pitardii
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Other taxa in genus
- Camellia brevistyla
- Camellia caudata
- Camellia chekiangoleosa
- Camellia costei
- Camellia crapnelliana
- Camellia cuspidata
- Camellia cuspidata × C. saluenensis
- Camellia drupifera
- Camellia edithae
- Camellia forrestii
- Camellia fraterna
- Camellia furfuracea
- Camellia granthamiana
- Camellia hongkongensis
- Camellia japonica
- Camellia kissii
- Camellia lutchuensis
- Camellia 'Maliflora'
- Camellia oleifera
- Camellia petelotii
- Camellia ptilophylla
- Camellia reticulata
- Camellia rosiflora
- Camellia saluenensis
- Camellia sasanqua
- Camellia sinensis
- Camellia taliensis
- Camellia tsaii
- Camellia × vernalis
- Camellia × williamsii
- Camellia yunnanensis
A near relative of C. reticulata from which it is distinguished by its more narrowly elliptic leaves 3{2/5} to 5 in. long and 1 to 1{3/5} in. wide, long acute to caudate at the apex and prominently serrulate. It is represented in cultivation by the var. yunnanica Sealy, which has the young branches hairy, the leaves more tapered to base and apex but not abruptly acuminate or caudate and less prominently toothed. Flowers light crimson, about 3 in. across, bud-scales downy to villose, petals five or six, stamens very numerous and united for over one-half to three-quarters their length; ovary densely hairy. Introduced by Forrest and by Major Lawrence Johnson. Native of Yunnan and S. Szechwan. Bot. Mag., n.s., t.633.