International Camellia Register
ICR
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ICS logo Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, which are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. Camellias are famous throughout East Asia; which are known as cháhuā (茶花, 'tea flower') in Chinese, tsubaki (椿) in Japanese, dongbaek-kkot (동백꽃) in Korean. Of economic importance in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent, leaves of C. sinensis are processed to create the popular beverage tea. The ornamental C. japonica, C. sasanqua, C. reticulata and their hybrids as well as other species in this genus are the source of hundreds of garden cultivars. As important woody oil plants, C. oleifera and C. japonica etc. produces camellia seed oil, used in cooking and cosmetics.[more]

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Cultivar names

Totally, 52,874 cultivar names were recorded. The status of the names is as follows:

Status Total
Accepted 27,072 51.2%
Synonym 25,405 48.0%
Unresolved 397 0.8%
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Year
Wild Camellia Names

Totally, 1,427 Camellia Taxa Names were recorded in 406 Species pages with detailed information. The status of the names is as follows:

Status Total
Accepted Name 279 19.6%
Accepted Infraspecific Name 19 1.3%
Heterotypic Synonym 430 30.1%
Homotypic Synonym 80 5.6%
Cited Name 373 26.1%
Chinese Name 206 14.4%
Vietnamese Name 40 2.8%