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Camellia rosiflora; photograph Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons CC0Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Camellia rosiflora Hook.

Theaceae · China South-Central, China Southeast

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Summary

Camellia rosiflora is a species of flowering plant in the tea family Theaceae. It is native to southern China but is possibly extinct in the wild. A shrub reaching 1.5 to 2.4 m (5 to 8 ft), it is hardy in USDA zones 7 through 9 and is recommended for hedges. There appears to be a cultivar, 'Roseaflora Cascade'.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Camellia rosiflora", CC BY-SA 4.0.

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: No georeferenced record inside the range.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
No openly licensed record to show inside the range.
NativeChina South-Central, China Southeast · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedNo georeferenced record lies inside the stated native range, and all 2 georeferenced records read lie outside it: the range and the records disagree. They are not used, and no map marker or climate is derived from them.

Photographs

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Photographs: Krzysztof Golik, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (4); Motohiro Sunouchi, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).

Other Camellia 39 in the reference

Camellia amplexicaulis Camellia amplexicaulis Theaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Hungda 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 all 40 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Thea maliflora; Thea rosiflora. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Theaceae
Described by
Hook.
Native to
China South-Central, China Southeast
Wild records
none in range · 2 outside it

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 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredas of 2026-10-21GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 2 records within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum, 1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21no georeferenced record inside the range
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
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 2 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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