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the flower that drops dead gorgeous, snapping off whole instead of wilting petal by petal.
means A glossy-leaved evergreen shrub of the tea family, prized for its showy, often perfectly symmetrical roselike blooms.
from Named in honor of Georg Joseph Kamel, a Jesuit missionary and botanist who worked in the Philippines and catalogued its plants. Linnaeus Latinized his surname to 'Camellus' and pinned it onto the genus, even though Kamel himself never seems to have written about this particular flower — a botanical tribute to the man rather than the bloom.
- secret identity
- tea comes from a camellia species
- samurai snub
- warriors avoided it for beheading-like blooms
- winter rebel
- blooms defiantly in cold months
- chanel obsession
- coco's signature flower, deliberately scentless
- oil rich
- seeds pressed into prized cooking and beauty oil
camellia japonica — native to japan and korea, over 300 cultivated varieties with flowers up to 5 inches across
camellia sinensis — the tea plant grown across china, india, kenya—produces all true tea (black, green, white, oolong)
midnight supreme camellia — dark crimson double-flowered cultivar, prize-winning variety at southern camellia shows since 1950s