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Camellia amplexicaulis (Pit.) Cohen-Stuart

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Summary

Camellia amplexicaulis is a species of flowering tree in the tea family. Originally native to Vietnam, it has been considered extinct in the wild since 2018. It is one of two species of trees in the tea family that only exists in cultivation, the other being Franklinia. It is known in Vietnam as Hải đường.

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About the genus · Camellia

Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in tropical and subtropical areas in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are more than 220 described species; almost all are found in southern China and Indochina. More on Wikipedia ›

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Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived. 37 of the 37 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or to no stated accuracy and fewer than three decimals or by something other than a person's observation, and cannot place a climate cell, though they count for the map and its marker.

Natural habitat

No native range: WCVP lists no region where it is native.
Openly licensed records, not tested against the stated range, framed on where they fall.
NativeWCVP lists no region where it is native; the regions it does list are named here.
Extinct inVietnam · recorded as extinct by WCVP: history, not habitat; no records are tested against these regions
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo verified native range for this name: WCVP has no entry with native status, and a checklist that only reports presence cannot tell a wild record from a garden one. The map shows 4 openly licensed records of 37 untested against any range; no map marker or climate is derived from them, and no sheet is built from them. 37 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km, or with no stated accuracy (admitted only as a person's observation to three decimals), and stay on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (5).

Other Camellia 39 in the reference

Camellia amplexifolia Theaceae Camellia azalea Camellia azalea Theaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCamellia brevistyla Camellia brevistyla Theaceae Photo: CC BY, Francisca WuCamellia caudata Camellia caudata Theaceae Photo: CC0, author not statedCamellia chekiangoleosa Camellia chekiangoleosa Theaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, ZhangzhugangCamellia chrysanthoides Camellia chrysanthoides Theaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotCamellia crapnelliana Camellia crapnelliana Crapnell's Camellia Photo: CC BY, Kalvin ChanCamellia cuspidata Camellia cuspidata Theaceae Photo: CC BY, User:BotBln Camellia drupifera Theaceae Camellia euphlebia Camellia euphlebia Theaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, 阿橋 HQCamellia euryoides Camellia euryoides Theaceae Photo: CC BY, 曾昱承 Yu-Cheng Zeng Camellia flavida Theaceae all 40 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Camellia cylindracea; Thea amplexicaulis. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Theaceae
Described by
(Pit.) Cohen-Stuart
Native to
not verified
Records
37 georeferenced · 4 open · range not tested

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-21
GBIF species record gbif.species answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms answeredasked 2026-10-21
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular answeredasked 2026-10-21names fetched 2026-10-21
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry lists no native region
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21native range not verified: no WCVP distribution with native status for this name, so records cannot be told from cultivation and no habitat climate is derived
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22from iNaturalist's open data of 2026-09-27: research-grade observations with an open-licence photograph, the 24 whose photographs iNaturalist received last (the open data holds no votes); filled 2026-10-22
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-21
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 5 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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