Camellia Crassicolumna seed
LATIN NAME: Camellia crassicolumna
COMMON NAME: Thick-Stemmed Camellia
The thick-stemmed camellia is a handsome, upright, densely branched, evergreen shrub or small tree of the warm forests, and its fine, glossy, oval or oblong, sharply toothed leaves and its fine, single, white or pale-pink, cup-shaped flowers with the many golden stamens, followed by the round, three-celled, woody fruits of the few large seeds, have made it a treasured and fine plant of the region. It grows as an upright, densely branched, evergreen shrub or small tree, reaching up to ten metres or more, with the many upright, branching stems bearing the alternate, glossy, oval or oblong, pointed, sharply toothed leaves and, through the late autumn and the winter, the fine, single, white or pale-pink, cup-shaped flowers with the many golden stamens, followed by the round, three-celled, woody fruits of the few large, oily seeds. It is a species of the flowering shrub in the tea family, and it is native to the warm forests of the southern China and the surrounding regions, while it is treasured for its fine, glossy foliage and its fine, winter flowers, and it is known as the thick-stemmed camellia.
In the tea family it is the glossy, winter-flowered camellia of the southern forests, a shrub whose cup-shaped blossom lights up the dark season.
Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology
The thick-stemmed camellia appears in the warm-region shrub papers of the south, and the botanists have mapped its place in the tea family and the regional flora. The food scientists have studied the large, oily seeds and their fine, clear, pale oil with its long history in the region, and the horticulturists have grown the glossy, winter-flowered form as a treasured shrub of the warm garden. It is a shrub of the oil-seed, evergreen kind, and the growers of the camellias keep it in their catalogues.
Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications
In the warm garden, the thick-stemmed camellia is the glossy shrub of the winter corner. Its cup-shaped flowers feed the bees of the late season, its woody fruits feed the forest creatures, and the dense, evergreen growth gives cover and shelter through the year. The fine, clear, pale oil from the seeds has served the fine cooking and the care of the region, and the shrub grows well in the rich, moist, acid, well-drained ground of the sheltered, half-shaded spot. Glossy, winter-flowered and useful.
These seeds are best sown fresh — crack the woody fruits open and sow the fine, oily seeds straight away at a shallow depth in pots of rich, moist, free-draining soil, keep the pots in a sheltered, half-shaded spot and never let them dry out, and the first shoots will be up before long.