What are the varieties of camellias?

The main varieties of camellias:

1, eighteen Bachelor

Eighteen Bachelor camellias are a treasure among camellias, y loved by people. It is not as Jin Yong "Dragon Eight" in the Duan Yu described a camellia on the flower can bloom eighteen different colors of flowers.

In fact, "eighteen" refers to the number of petal rounds rather than the number of flower colors, adjacent to the two corners of the petal arrangement of 20 rounds or so, more than 18 rounds, so it is called "eighteen Bachelor". It is a beautiful tree, the flower structure is peculiar, from 70-130 pieces of petals composed of hexagonal tower-shaped corolla, levels, arranged in an orderly manner, very beautiful. Its common flower colors are vermilion, scarlet. Pink, all white colors.

Eighteen Bachelor, camellia varieties, there are pink eighteen Bachelor, red eighteen Bachelor, white eighteen Bachelor three, all monochromatic. Jin Yong also mentioned in the "eight parts of the Dragon" in the "eighteen bachelor" varieties of camellias. But it is purely fictional.

2, hexagonal red

Flowers are bright red, completely heavy petal type, there are very few flowers for "rose heavy petal type or peony type". Large flowers, flowers up to 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter. The petals are more than one hundred, arranged in an imbricate hexagonal shape or in a whorl-like circling arrangement. "Hexagonal red" is also called: "Songyang red".

The tree is beautifully shaped, with plump and upright branches, thick green obovate leaves with teeth, and slow growth. The flowers of the original "Songyang Hong" can reach 10 to 12 centimeters in diameter or more, and most of the flowers are "hexagonal tile-shaped neatly arranged" and "whorled circling neatly arranged", with petals 8 to 10 rounds or more. Most of the flowers are "neatly arranged in hexagonal tiles" and "neatly arranged in whorls", with 8 to 10 whorls of petals, and each flower has more than a hundred petals. There are also very few flowers that are "rose-heavy or peony type".

3, Chidan

Chidan, a variety of camellia, an evergreen shrub and small trees. The ancient name of the sea pomegranate. There are aliases such as Yu Minghua, enduring winter, and has been divided into East China Camellia, Chuan Camellia and late Camellia. Camellia varieties, is a traditional Chinese ornamental flowers, "Ten Famous Flowers" ranked eighth, is also one of the world's valuable flowers.

4, Zhuang Yuanhong

Strong Yuanhong, large and colorful flowers, brilliant as the evening sun. Legend has it that a scholar groom has been recruited as an emperor's son-in-law, thousands of miles in search of relatives, but accidentally met his own teenage "wife", is she served his father for 17 years. In the biological father forced him to round house, an imperial decree to declare him into the capital to marry. Father's order is difficult to disobey, the king can not be deceived, he spat blood and fell to the ground and died. The next year, a peony was born on the grave of the scholar, the flower was as big as a plate, and the color was like the brocade robe of the scholar, so people called it "Scholar's Red".

5. Crown

The camellia "Crown" is said to be the bud variety of camellia "Flower Peony", and the one with red petals and white spots is "Flower Peony", and the one with white petals and red spots is "Flower Peony", and the one with white petals and red spots is "Flower Peony". The red petals with white spots are "Flower Peony" and the white petals with red spots are "Crown". In fact, "Crown" is a flower peony in the garden of Huang Deyin's predecessor in Shanghai, which produces more white-spotted red-edged flowers, and its flower color is close to that of the azalea variety "Crown", so it is also named "Crown". "

But it is not.

But "Crown" flower color is not stable, often bloom flowers like peonies, the ratio of red and white petals also change a lot. Therefore, "Crown" camellia traits are not stable, or should be categorized as "flower peony" varieties.

6, scarlet claw hibiscus

Scarlet claw hibiscus English name: Feizhaofurong leaves like white hibiscus. Flowers large, petals obovate, 3 rounds of basin-shaped, the center of the fine petal clusters with yellow stamens. Flower color red with white spots, or red and white. Produced in Wenzhou. Flowering period: early February - early March.

7, Camellia

Camellia (Camellia sasanqua) Camelliaceae, Camellia sinensis evergreen shrubs, Camelliaceae, like shady and wet because of its flower type both camellia and plum blossom characteristics, it is known as Camellia. It is delicate, elegant leaf shape, colorful flowers, long flowering period, is a flower, foliage are good for the famous flowers. Distributed in Japan, New Zealand, the United States and other places.

8, flower crane order

Flower Crane Plume is a kind of camellia, red camellia varieties. Name: Huaheling, English name: Huaheling, shrubs, flowers deep peach color, sprinkled with white patches, petals about 70 pieces, composed of hemispherical, flower diameter 8-12 cm. Flowering period:February-late March. This species has a large flower shape, petals are quite, flower color is bright.

9, Fenxia

Fenxia English name: Fenxia shrub, tree shape is low, branches spread evenly, softer. Flowers pink, petals 10-15 rounds, as many as more than 80 pieces of neatly arranged, petals folded on both sides, the mid-rib and the edge of the white stripes, the corolla is hexagonal or pentagonal, the center is lower, the pistil is completely degraded. Flower diameter 8-12 centimeters. Flowering period: early February - late March.

10, red Luzhen

The new variety of camellia colorful leaves red Luzhen. Red Lu Zhen leaves elliptic, apex short acuminate, base broad cuneate, leaf margins rolled down into a turtle's back shape, especially vigorous growth, branch hard, compact, standing sex. One of the camellia varieties.

Hong Luzhen leaves elliptic, especially vigorous, branch hard, compact, vertical. Flowers are red, petals arranged in several rounds, the middle of the stamens sandwiched between the petals, the flower diameter of 9 to 12 centimeters, peony type, the flowering period of 1 to March; strong growth, for the wall of camellia based on varieties.

Expanded Information

There are about 2,000 varieties of camellia, which can be divided into 3 categories and 12 flower types, and in 2013, there were more than 306 varieties of camellia in China. "Flower Mirror" contains nineteen varieties of camellia: agate tea, cranesbill red, Baozhu tea, banana calyx white Baozhu, Yangfei tea, Zhenggong powder, pomegranate tea, a twist of red, Shoden red, late tea, Nanshan tea. There are many types of tea flowers, including single petal, semi-heavy petal, heavy petal, curved petal, five-star petal, hexagonal, and pine shell type.

The flowers have red, yellow, white, pink, and even white petals and red dots and other colors. Mainly distributed in China and Japan. Central China and southern provinces in the open ground are cultivated, has been 1400 years of cultivation history, the northern part of the line greenhouse potted plants. Chongqing, Yunnan, Sichuan, Taiwan, Shandong, Jiangxi and other places have wild species.

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