Taiwan Jiuqu

Gao, Jiyin, 2007, The Identification....Outstanding Camellias, p.167 with colour photo; Widely cultivated in Taiwan, but assumed to have originated in Mainland China. Previously known as ‘Jiuqu’, and renamed by Professor Gao to distinguish it from the C.edithae hybrid ‘Jiuqu’, now renamed Dalu Jiuqu. Flowers pink to deep pink, formal double, small to medium size, imbricated. Leaves dark green, elliptic, shiny and glabrous, strongly serrated. Spreading, vigorous growth. Flowers early to mid-season.