Large shrub to small tree. Leaves to 15 cm long, elliptic to oblong or oblanceolate, leathery dark glossy green with a few teeth in the upper half, tapering to the base. Flowers to about 8 cm wide or so on very short stalks, white. Petals 5-6. Stamens numerous, yellow; mostly winter. Fruit to about 3 cm long, hard and woody, with woody, persistent sepals.
SE Asia (Taiwan to Vietnam)
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.
