Camellia japonica 'Kramer's Supreme'

Deep-red buds open to magnificent, peony-like, rosy-red flowers with a delightful fragrance. The blooms create a dazzling contrast against the glossy, dark-green foliage, brightening lightly-shaded settings. Flowers from early to late-winter. Stunning in woodland borders and foundation plantings, or as a hedge.

Exotic

Evergreen

Hedging and screening

Attracts bees

Family: Theaceae, tea family, a family of flowering trees and shrubs. Most but not all species are native to China and East Asia.

Genus: Camellia, camellia (Latinised), named by Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) after the botanist Georg Joseph Kamel (1661 - 1706), who worked in the Philippines and described a species of camellia. Commonly known as camellia, a genus of flowering plants native to eastern and southern Asia.

Species: Camellia japonica, jāpōnica (Latin, adjective), meaning 'Japanese, of or relating to Japan', in reference to the species being first described by Engelbert Kaempfer (1651 - 1716) while he was in Japan. Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778) gave the specific epithet japonica to the species in 1753. In the wild, the species is not only found in Japan, but also in China, Taiwan, and Korea.

Cultivar: Camellia japonica 'Kramer's Supreme'

Common Name: Camellia

Description: Deep-red buds open to magnificent, peony-like, rosy-red flowers with a delightful fragrance. The blooms create a dazzling contrast against the glossy, dark-green foliage, brightening lightly-shaded settings. Flowers from early to late-winter. Stunning in woodland borders and foundation plantings, or as a hedge.

Height: 3m

Width: 2m

Uses: Hedging and screening, Attracts bees

Winter Foliage: Evergreen

Origin: Exotic

Foliage:

• Summer: Green

• Autumn: Green

• Winter: Green

• Spring: Green

Flowers:

• Summer: None

• Autumn: None

• Winter: Red

• Spring: None