Camellia japonica 'Mrs R.L. Wheeler'

Flowers 10–11 cm wide, formal double, with numerous pink petals that are sometimes deeper coloured or with red markings. Raised at Wheeler's Nursery, Macon, Georgia, USA as a chance seedling that first bloomed in 1945. Int. c. 1962.
kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Ericales
family       Theaceae
genus        Camellia L.
species         Camellia japonica L.