Camellia yunnanensis

{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}

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|image = Camellia yunnensis CFGa933.jpg

|image_caption = In flower

|image2 = Camellia yunnanensis CFGq360.jpg

|image2_caption = Young foliage

| status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=Rivers, M.C. |year=2015 |title=Camellia yunnanensis |volume=2015 |page=e.T62059596A62059604 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2015-4.RLTS.T62059596A62059604.en |access-date=3 November 2022}}

|genus = Camellia

|species = yunnanensis

|authority = Cohen Stuart  

}}

Camellia yunnanensis is a 1.3–7 m tall shrub or small tree endemic to China.

Its leaves are elliptic to broad-elliptic or ovate-elliptic, bluntly acute. They are deep green.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gene.affrc.go.jp/htbin/plant/image/get_logo_e?plno=56601095 |title=Camellia yunnanensis Cohen Stuart |access-date=2006-07-31 |archive-date=2007-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070430040324/http://www.gene.affrc.go.jp/htbin/plant/image/get_logo_e?plno=56601095 |url-status=live }}

Its flowers is white, perulate and solitary.{{Cite web |url=http://www.uniklinik-saarland.de/med_fak/physiol2/camellia/register/species/spec_tz.htm# |title=Species T-Z |access-date=2006-07-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070312020207/http://www.uniklinik-saarland.de/med_fak/physiol2/camellia/register/species/spec_tz.htm# |archive-date=2007-03-12 |url-status=dead }}

Distribution

It is distributed in Sichuan, Yunnan, and Guizhou Provinces, China.

The plants was introduced to Japan after 1979 in the form of seeds and scions for grafting.

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