New product of camellia, Eternal Camellia (永生茶花，preserved fresh camellia), received the Gold Medal award at the 12th Chinese Camellia Expo in Jinhua of Zhejiang, China on 13-22 March 2021. This is a new product for China camellia industry. This Eternal Camellia was presented and exhibited by Yun…[more]
The cultivar Camellia japonica 'Mochuan' was registered in 2019 by Mr. Chen Jianchuan （陈建川）from Yingxiang Nursery, Yongfu Town, Longyan City, Fujian Province. It is said the color of this cultivar is the deepest in China, even deeper than the famous dark color cultivar 'Night Rider'. This new cu…[more]
Dr. Yu Xiang-qin (余香琴), Dr. Liu En-de (刘恩德) and Dr. Yang Shi-xiong (杨世雄) et al., staffs and taxomists in Kunming Insititute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, had discovered and published a new yellow camellia species which is in the sect. Calpandria of the genus Camellia in an open acc…[more]
Many users hope to know the information about a cultivar from which country and which year. Now we add two fields to record country and year, and all cultivars in the database had been updated these two fields as well. Thanks to the support from American Camellia Society, so far, all 23 new cultivars…[more]
Camellia is one of the top ten traditional Chinese flowers, and is the city flower of Jinhua. From 6-9 March 2003, the 16th International Camellia Congress was successfully held in Jinhua which was the first time in China. On 13 March 2021, the Chinese Camellia Museum was officially opened in Jinhua,…[more]
During the unusual Covid-19 season, many camellia exhibitions throghout the world had to be suspended, postponed or cancelled, but China is an exception. From 13 to 22 March, the 12th National Camellia Expo was held in Jinhua of Zhejiang province, China.On March 13, the openning ceremony of 12th Chin…[more]
Prof. Min Tianlu (闵天禄 Ming Tien-lu) was born on 8 December 1937 in SE Yunnan’s Luoping county, a taxonomist doctoral supervisor and professor of the Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, had passed away in Kunming on 25 February 2021 at the age of 84.Prof. Min Tianlu has …[more]
The Web Camellia Register was developed by prof. Gianmario Motta. All pictures of the the previous Web Register have been migrated and uploaded in the Database of International Camellia Register hence the button Register at International Camellia Society will directly pop up the IC register.To access…[more]
From official website of International Camellia Society, the ICS Directors approved the postponement of the 2020 International Camellia Congress (Italy) to the year 2023, due to uncertainty of Covid-19 pandemics. The congress will keep the same program, with an identical schedule. A detailed illustra…[more]
Our new paper "The Dataset of Camellia Cultivars Names in the World" was was published on 19 Jan. 2021 at Biodiversity Data Journal 9: e61646.In recent days much more new data had been added and updated greatly. If you want to have the latest data, please visit the International Camellia Register.For…[more]
