Camellia oleifera: Evergreen shrub or small tree, 3-4m high, sparsely up to 8m. Bark yellowish brown, smooth and indehiscent; branchlets slightly pubescent. Simple leaves alternate; petiole 4-7mm long, hairy; leaf blade thick leathery, ovate-elliptic or ovate, 3.5-9cm long, 1.8-4.2cm wide, apex obtuse, base cuneate, margin serrated, upper Bright green, glabrous or hirsute in midvein, below midvein base hairy or glabrous, lateral veins inconspicuous. Flowers bisexual, 1-3 flowers born on branch tops or leaf axils, 3-5cm in diameter, sessile; sepals usually 5, suborbicular, outer sericeous; petals 5-7, white, separated, obovate to lanceolate, 2.5-4.5cm long, apex often concave, hairy outside; stamens numerous, glabrous, outer filaments only commissural at base; ovary superior, densely covered with white filiform hairs, style three-lobed at apex. Capsule nearly spherical, 3-5cm in diameter, thick pericarp, woody, 2-3-lobed dorsally. The seeds are dorsally rounded and flattened and grow to 2.5cm. The flowering period is October-November, and the fruiting period is October of the following year. Youxian is the famous "Hometown of Chinese Camellia Oil", where Camellia oleifera has been cultivated for more than 800 years. The main cultivars are mainly frost seeds, and there are also a small amount of cold dew seeds and pearl seeds, which are not only economic tree species, but also can be used as garden ornamental tree species.
