冬红短柱茶 Camellia hiemalis NakaiCamellia hiemalis

Camellia hiemalis, Subgenus Camellia, Sect. Camellia, Subsect. Reticulata Chang, Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni, monogr. ser. 1: 56. 1981. Ser. Reticulatae Chang, Acta Sci. Nat. Univ. Sunyatseni, monogr. ser. 1: 61. 1981. Chang Hung-ta and Bruce Bartholomew (1984). Camellias, p.95: Camellia hiemalis Nakai, Journ. Jap. Bot. 16:695. 1940. [Description] Small tree, branchlets glabrous. Leaves coriaceous, elliptic or oblong, 6-9 cm long 3-4 cm wide, lateral veins 7 pairs, serrulate. Flowers pink or white, sessile, 5 cm in diameter; bracts and sepals 8-9, broadly ovoid, 4-15 mm long, puberulent; petals 7, 3-3. 5 cm long; stamens in 3-4 series, outer filament whorl forming a short tube, glabrous; ovaries pubescent, 3-locular; styles 3 cm long, apex shallowly 3-cleft. This species is a Penjing (bonsai) type plant introduced to Japan from Shanghai. Itsappearance is similar to C. japonica, but the ovaries are pubescent and the flowers arepink or white.

Gao Jiyin, Clifford R. Parks, Du Yueqiang, 2005, Collected Species of the Genus Camellia an Illustrated Outline，p.184. Flowers are pink, rose or red, vary in form from single to double, bud set may be abundant. Since this is a group of highly variable hybrids, the botanical characteristic differ greatly from cultivar to cultivar and have little meaning. In general, these cultivars are highly variable hybrids and segregates of C. sasanqua. Distibution: Only known in cultivation, origi-nally from China and Japan.

冬红山茶Camellia hiemalis Nakai in Journ. Jap. Bot. 16：695，1940. 张宏达，1981. 《山茶属植物的系统研究》第69页。【标本】浙江：杭州，杭州大学校园，郑朝宗20211，杭州植物园1822；杭州，孤山，放鹤亭边，贺贤育H.Y. Ho 63。【形态特征】小乔木，嫩枝无毛。叶革质，椭圆形或长圆形，长6-9厘米，宽3-4厘米，侧脉约7对，有细锯齿。花粉红或白色，无柄，直径5厘米；苞片及萼片8-9片，阔倒卵圆形，长4-15毫米，有微毛；花瓣7片，长3-3.5厘米；雄蕊3-4轮，外轮花丝有短管，无毛；子房有毛，3室，花柱长2厘米，先端3浅裂。这个种是从上海引种到日本去的盆景红山茶，外形近似C.japonica，但子房被毛，花粉红色或白色。

高继银、帕克斯、杜跃强，2005. 《山茶属植物主要原种彩色图集》浙江科学技术出版社，第184页。花红色、玫瑰红色，单瓣型至重瓣型，花芽很多。由于这是一组高度变异的杂交种，栽培种之间的植物学特征各不相同。总之，这些栽培种是茶梅的杂交种或后代分离，变异性很大。分布：起源于中国和日本，仅限于栽培，没有发现有野生分布。