page_title: Camellia japonica
section_title: China
hierarchical_section_title: Camellia japonica / History / China
caption_attribution_description: A Japanese Camellia (Camellia japonica) bonsai, Japanese Collection 55, on display at the National Bonsai &amp; Penjing Museum at the United States National Arboretum. According to the tree's display placard, it has been in training since 1936. It was donated by Ginnosuke Sakuma.
context_page_description: Camellia japonica, known as common camellia, Japanese camellia, or tsubaki in Japanese, is one of the best known species of the genus Camellia. Sometimes called the rose of winter, it belongs to the family Theaceae. It is the official state flower of Alabama. There are thousands of cultivars of C. japonica in cultivation, with many different colors and forms of flowers. In the U.S. it is sometimes called japonica, a name more often used in the UK for Chaenomeles.
  In the wild, it is found in mainland China, Taiwan, southern Korea and southern Japan. It grows in forests, at altitudes of around 300–1,100 metres.
  Leaf of Camellia japonica is rich in several anti-inflammatory terpenoids like lupeol, squalene etc.
context_section_description: Camellia japonica has appeared in paintings and porcelain in China since the 11th century. Early paintings of the plant are usually of the single red flowering type. However, a single white flowering plant is shown in the scroll of the Four Magpies of the Song Dynasty.
caption: A bonsai specimen of C. japonica
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