''Camellia yunnanensis'' is a 1.3–7 m tall shrub or small tree
endemic
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to China.
Its leaves are elliptic to broad-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, bluntly acute. They are deep green.
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Its flowers is white, perulate and solitary.
Distribution
It is distributed in Sichuan
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, Yunnan
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, and Guizhou
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Provinces, China
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.[
The plants was introduced to Japan after 1979 in the form of ]seed
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s and scion
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s for grafting.
References
yunnanensis
Endemic flora of China
Flora of Guizhou
Flora of Sichuan
Flora of Yunnan
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