Camellia crapnelliana Conifers and a conversation piece for

and a conversation piece for the cook who wants limes off the branch

two genuine differentiators the more common species cannot match

recorded surviving four degrees Fahrenheit at the U

A note on the name

There is a particular pleasure in an unnamed plant

Camellia crapnelliana Conifers and a conversation piece forTwo camellias do most of the work in American gardens, Camellia japonica and Camellia sasanqua, in countless named forms. The Far East holds far more, and Woodlanders is among the few nurseries offering the lesser known species to gardeners here. Camellia crapnelliana, the Crapnell camellia, is one of the most distinctive: a slow, upright evergreen first described from Hong Kong Island and named for the collector Crapnell. The species is grown as much