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Camellia taliensis (W.W.Sm.) Melch.

Theaceae · China South-Central, Myanmar +1

No habitat climate
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Summary

Camellia taliensis (also known as Yunnan large leaf varietal tea, wild tea, Dali tea, Yunnan broad tea, Fried egg plant and others; 大理茶) is a small species of evergreen shrub whose leaves and leaf buds are used to produce tea.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Camellia taliensis", 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: Only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope. 21 of the 22 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

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeChina South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand · 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).
Map marker24.928, 98.767 · in the densest population, 11 records (50% of those in range)
Kew's description“shrub or tree” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 22 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 20 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 3 records outside the WCVP native range not used. No climate across the range is derived for this species. 21 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.
How this section is made
The map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 22 in-range records; it decides nothing. Records outside the native range, living specimens and records marked introduced are not used; which records count.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Eugene Popov, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); Krzysztof Ziarnek, Kenraiz, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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 Camellia changningensis; Camellia irrawadiensis; Camellia pentastyla; Camellia quinquebracteata; Camellia yunkiangica and 3 more. (GBIF Backbone)

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The record

Family
Theaceae
Described by
(W.W.Sm.) Melch.
Native to
China South-Central, Myanmar, Thailand
Wild records
22 in range · 20 open

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; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a herbarium; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-21only 1 distinct land cell of the climate grid holds an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata answeredasked 2026-10-21
Wikipedia wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-21
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild answeredasked 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 answeredasked 2026-10-21none of the photographs on this page is credited to GBIF: those shown are other sources', and GBIF's were the same photographs or were set aside by the photograph rules
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 12 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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