Camellia brevistyla ("Shimasazanka")

Japanese name: シマサザンカ （島山茶花）
Scientific name: Camellia brevistyla

[Overview]
An evergreen shrub 1–3.5 m tall, rarely reaching 5–8 m.
The leaves are simple and alternate, elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 1.5–5.5 cm long and 0.7–3 cm wide.
They have short petioles.
The flowers are usually solitary in the axil of the first scale leaf of the winter bud.
The flowers are 1.5–2.5 cm across, with 5–7 petals, and are white or pale pink.
The fruit is a capsule, spherical and 1–1.8 cm across.

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