Christmas Camellia (Camellia sasanqua) Blooms:

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This photo shows a Christmas camellia (Camellia sasanqua) in bloom. I find this to be a beautiful plant, and it is unusual in that it bloom towards late November and the beginning of December in the Philadelphia area, and blooms for a long time.

This photo was featured in my blog post about the Christmas camellia and its relationship to the tea plant, in which I noted that these blooms smell a lot like the floral qualities in some greener oolong teas.