Camellia oleifera New the shadowed edge of a

the shadowed edge of a woodland

Plant a few in the garden and you join a small

Plant on a hot bank

very Lowcountry tradition

This is one of the most useful evergreens for the difficult places of a Southern garden

Camellia oleifera New the shadowed edge of aThree things to know about this camellia. First, the tea oil camellia is the most economically important non tea member of the genus. China has cultivated Camellia oleifera for over two thousand three hundred years for the oil pressed from the seeds, a light, sweetish, monounsaturated cooking oil chemically close to olive oil (around eighty percent oleic acid in both), used for cooking, traditional cosmetics, hair tonics, and the historic rust