Silky Camelia

The cream-colored petals are crimped at the margins with numerous dark-purple stamen filaments and bluish anthers. Silky hairs cover the lower leaf surface.



Specimen plant. This is an open-branched shrub that can be trained into a small tree. It prefers habitats under a high canopy.

Not salt tolerant of inundation by salty or brackish water.



Low/no tolerance of salty wind or direct salt spray

Slope forest, upland hardwood forest, baygall. On acidic soils.

• Showy flowers