Alias: Stramonium tree, Toon, mountain toon, winter-resister, night camellia, camellia flower, and western camellia

Family Name: Camelliacceae

1. Morphological Character      

Camellia is an evergreen arbor or shrub that can reach a height of 15 meters. The trunk is brownish gray. The leaf is alternate, leathery and lustrous, from ovoid to ellipse, with indention at the edges.

Nowadays, there are more than five thousand species of Camellia in the world and more than three hundred in China.

2. The Common Species

Bright-leaf and golden-mind, Helang powder, little pine nut, golden-dish litchi, phoenix fairy, and hard-branch camellia