Camellia 'Jean Pursel'

(C. japonica ('Damanao' × 'Mrs D.W. Davis') × C. reticulata 'Crimson Robe')

Flowers about 16 cm wide, informal double, pale purplish pink with about 23 pink-veined petals and 15–20 petal-like stamens.

Raised by Frank Pursel, Oakland, California, USA and first bloomed in 1973.

Introduced c. 1975.

kingdom Plantae
phylum   Tracheophyta
class    Magnoliopsida
superorder     Asteranae
order      Ericales
family       Theaceae
genus        Camellia L.