Camellia gigantocarpa Jenks and other sandy-ground natives

and other sandy-ground natives

and has taken brief cold near zero degrees in sheltered spots

the Irish botanist and physician who found the tree in 1887 in the remote forests of Hubei Province while serving as a medical officer in China

found in southwest Virginia by the late Norman Beal

in a rain garden or low

Camellia gigantocarpa Jenks and other sandy-ground nativesCamellia gigantocarpa is a rare and remarkable species from the subtropical forests of southern China, first documented in the wild in the 1980s in Guangxi Province. The name says the essential thing: gigantocarpa, giant fruit. Where most camellias are grown for flowers, this species is prized above all for the great woody seed capsules that follow them, among the largest in the entire genus. The flowers are no afterthought, large and single, white to