Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura' 25/5 Restock and a fine foliage plant

and a fine foliage plant in its own right

and dozens of regional nurseries from Louisiana to Idaho all carry the plant

the clusters glowing against the fading leaves for strong late-season color

and the long stamens and evening scent suggest a partnership with night-flying moths as well

and a dependable layer of mulch

Camellia japonica 'Tama no ura' 25/5 Restock and a fine foliage plant'Tama no ura' is among the most celebrated of all wild found camellias, and the story is part of the plant. In 1947 a charcoal worker came upon a single old Camellia japonica, by repute some two hundred years old, growing deep in the forest near Tamanoura on Fukue Island in the Goto archipelago, off Nagasaki. The flowers stopped him: single, bright red, and edged crisply in white, a clean picotee never before recorded in the wild. Selected and