Small shrub. Branchlets mostly hairy. Leaves elliptic to broadly elliptic, mostly 5-8 cm long, 2-2.5 cm wide, toothed, the teeth several millimetres apart. Bracts 6-8, uppermost soon shed. Flowers shortly stalked, about 3.5 cm wide, petals 6-9, delicate rose-pink, rounded at the tip, fused to the stamens at the base. Stamens about 1.5 cm long, the outer ones fused into a deep tube at the base. Styles divided into 3 at tip. Ovary hairless.
Used for hybridisation and has been successfully crossed with C. fraterna, C. saluenensis and C. tsaii.
China but known only through cultivation
Small flowers with pale pink petals.
Source: (1997). Camellia. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
