Shrub. Leaves 3-6 cm long, mostly oblong and about twice as long as broad. Branchlets hairless. Flowers white (except cultivars), petals 1-2.5 cm long, hairy. Styles 3, deeply split.
Specimens grown at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Melbourne Gardens) under this name have serrated (not near-entire) leaves as indicated by botanical descriptions.
Japan
Branchlets hairless; leaves with veins hardly visible below. Like C. sasanqua but leaves thicker, petals and styles shorter.
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. (as Camellia miyagii)
Camellia sasanqua 'Apple Blossom'
White flushed pink, apple-blossom-like; stamens pronounced yellow; early and fragrant. Raised Coolidge Gardens, Passadena, California, USA, from seed imported from Japan in 1921. Int. c. 1939.
Camellia sasanqua 'Beatrice Emily'
Double white with petal reverse mauvy pink. Raised Brown's Pentecost Nursery, St Ives, New South Wales, Australia as an unknown seedling. Int. c. 1957.
Camellia sasanqua 'Bert Jones'
Flowers semi-double, pink to silvery pink, up to 11 cm wide. Obtained by Bert Jones as a seedling from Camellia Grove Nursery, St Ives, NSW, Australia in 1958, parentage unknown. Int. c. 1967.
Flowers deep red, 9–10 cm wide. Raised by Tom Dodd Jr of Semmes, Alabama, USA, as a chance seedling of 'Crimson Tide' that first bloomed in 1959. Int. c. 1962.
Camellia sasanqua 'Edna Butler'
Flowers 10–11 cm wide, delicate pink, semi-double with silvery tones, petals crinkled, some stamens petal-like. Raised Arthur Butler, Castle Hill, New South Wales, Australia as a seedling of unknown parents and first flowered 1962. Int. c. 1966.
Camellia sasanqua 'Jennifer Susan'
Flowers about 7.5 cm wide, pale pink, informal double with curled petals. A chance seedling raised Dr A.L. Ducker, Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia and first bloomed 1959. Int. c. 1963.
Flowers over 7.5 cm wide, pink, stamens petal-like. A chance seedling of unknown parentage raised by Dr A.L. Ducker, Lindfield, New South Wales, Australia.
Flowers about 5 cm wide, pale pink, formal, double. Raised from E.G. Waterhouse, Gordon, New South Wales as a chance seedling from 'Folius Variegatus' c. 1949 and first bloomed 1964. Int. c. 1979.
Flowers 7.5–8 cm wide, carmine. Raised Japan. Int. c. 1841.
Camellia sasanqua 'Mine-no-yuki'
Flowers profuse, 5–7.5 cm wide, pure white, semi-double to informal double, the petals bi-lobed at the tip, crinkled. Raised Japan. Int. c. 1898.
Flowers about 7.5 cm wide, semi-double with 8 pale pink, crinkled broad, notched petals. Raised Japan. Int. c. 1937.
Camellia sasanqua 'Plantation Pink'
Flower pink, single. Raised E.G. Waterhouse, Gordon, New South Wales. Int. c. 1948.
Flowers semi-double with pink buds that open pure white. Raised Australia. Int. c. 1988.
Camellia sasanqua 'Red Willow'
Flowers pink, semi-double. Raised Mrs McCloy, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia. Int. c. 1964.
Flowers small, pale pink, semi-double to informal double. Raised Nuccio's Nurseries, Altadena, California, USA.
Camellia sasanqua 'Setsugekka'
(Snow, moon and flowers) Flowers to 10 cm wide, single to semi-double, white, occasionally tinged pink and darker on lower petal surface. Petals 7–9, wavy and crinkled. Raised Japan. Int. c. 1898.
