(Camellia, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights -- fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooms of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

Glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins are held on thin stems. The plants can have...

(Agnes O. Solomon Sasanqua, Camellia, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Agnes O. Solomon’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins....

(Asakura Sasanqua, Camellia, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Asakura’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which are...

(Bert Jones Sasanqua, Camellia, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Bert Jones’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which...

(Bonanza Sasanqua, Camellia, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Bonanza’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which are...

(Camellia, Cleopatra Sasanqua, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Cleopatra’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which...

(Camellia, Cotton Candy Sasanqua, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Cotton Candy’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which...

(Camellia, Dwarf Shishi Sasanqua, Sasanqua )

The diminutive sasanqua cultivar 'Dwarf Shishi' bears quantities of small, semi-double, bright rose-pink blooms from mid-autumn into winter. A seedling of 'Shishigashira', it was introduced by Toichi Domoto Nursery of Hayward, California. This cultivar is one of many selections and hybrids of Camellia sasanqua, a southern Japanese native that has been cultivated for centuries.

Relatively petite in all its parts, this slow-growing, evergreen shrub has leathery, oval, glossy-green leaves...

(Camellia, Hana-jiman Sasanqua, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Hana-jiman’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which...

(Camellia, Hiryu Sasanqua, Sasanqua )

Warm days, cool nights - fall and it’s time to look for the colorful blooming jewels of Camellia sasanqua. These evergreen shrubs don’t get as much attention as their more popular cousin, the large-flowered common Japanese camellia, but they should. Native to Japan, sasanquas, as they are known to garden enthusiasts, have a long history of use for tea, oil and ornament.

The cultivar ‘Hiryu’ has glossy, thin but leathery, elliptical, dark green leaves with toothed margins which are...