Variation
ssp. rusticana      syn.Camelia rusticanacultivars
These upright spreading shrubs to 4m (12ft) tall by 3m (10ft) wide have dark green elliptical leaves and produces single or double flowers up to 40mm (1?in) wide.

There are many cultivars of this plant, please contact your local nursery for available varieties.

Cultivars
'Alba Plena'
Formal double, early medium blooms, slow growth with dense foliage. Good tub plant.

'Australis'
Large informal double in rose to cherry red. The golden stamens intermingle with the petals and form a compact upright growth.

'Aspasia Macarthur'
This plant has a slender upright growth with a long flowering period. The flowers are informal double, white, marked with pink.

'Betty Ridley'
This plant has an upright growth with a long flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a medium size, formal double up to 100mm dia in a light pink.

'Betty's Beauty'
This plant has a compact upright growth with a long flowering period from early to late winter. The flowers are large loose informal double up to 100mm dia and are white with rose-red margins.

'Betty Sheffield Supreme'
This bushy plant which is ideal for tub planting flowers during mid season with an informal double. The petal edge is rosy-red, round fluted centre petals are mingled with golden stamens.

'Black Opal'
This plant has a compact growth habit with a long flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a small size, semi-double up to 65 mm dia with glossy red-black blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi-shade position.

'Blood of China'
This mid season flowering plant has an informal double in dark salmon red.

'Bob Hope'
This plant has a compact growth habit with a long flowering period from early to late winter. The flowers are a large size semi-double up to 100 mm dia with black-red blooms. Suitable for container planting in a sunny position.

'Bowen Bryant'
This strong growing plant that tolerates full sun. Mid season flowering in semi-double, bright pink blooms.

'Brushfield's Yellow'
This plant has a compact growth habit that is upright with a long flowering period from late spring to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, informal double up to 65 mm dia with pale primrose-yellow petaloid surrounded with white petals. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'Buttons 'N Bows' Camellia x williamsii
This plant has a medium growth habit with a long flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a medium size, formal double up to 80 mm dia with deep pink outer petals fading to a white centre. Suitable for container planting in a sunny position.

'Can Can'
This tall and slender plant is vigorous, the flowers are informal doubles in pale pink petals are wavy with ruffled centre of petaloides.

'Carter Sunburst'
Large semi-double in soft pink with flecks of deeper pink and has a high crest of wavy petals, stamens are intermingled. This plant has an upright habit with a long flowering period from late autumn to late winter and has lasting flowers.

'Carter Sunburst Pink'
This plant has a bushy growth habit that is upright with a long flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are very large size semi-double up to 120 mm dia with deep pink with deeper pink edges. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'Chandleri'
This plant has large foliage in a loose habit; the flowers are informal doubles in bright crimson with occasional fleck of white. Earlier flowering period than most.

'Clark Hubbs'
This plant has a compact habit and flowers mid to late season. Used in tub planting. Flowers are informal doubles in rich crimson with slightly fringed petals. Petaloides mingle with golden tipped stamens. Flowers are long lasting.

'C.H.Hover'
This plant has strong irregular growth habit. The flowers are large formal double in crimson, may turn slaty-purple during a cold snap. Mid to late season.

'C.M. Wilson'
This plant has a spreading habit. The flowers are large double in powdery pink. It is free flowering during mid season.

'Coral Delight'
This plant has a compact growth habit that is upright with a long flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a medium size, semi-double up to 100 mm dia with coral pink blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'Dahlohnega'
This plant has a medium growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, formal double up to 75 mm dia with white with creamy-yellow tinged blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'Dainty Maiden'
This plant has a pendulous habit and the flowers are semi-doubles in soft flesh-pink. The petaloides creepy intermingled with golden stamens. Needs protection from full sun.

'Daitairin'
This plant has a spreading habit and the flowers are semi-double to double with centre pale pink and outer deep pink in a cupped formation. It is an early and long flowering plant.
This plant is used in hedging, topiary, screen planting, filler, understorey, foliage contrast and as a container plant.

'Debutant'
The habit is erect and slender and the flowers are informal double in pale pink with central crest of petals. Early and long flowering period. Young plants may show heavy leaf fall during winter.

'Desire'
This plant has a vigorous growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, formal double up to 80 mm dia with white with pink edges in perfectly formed blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'D.Herzilia De Freitas Magalhaes'
This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit with a long flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a medium size with a double centre up to 75 mm dia with purple pink blooms. Suitable for a semi shade position.

'Dixie Night'
Strong and upright habit, the flowers are informal doubles in glowing-red during mid to late season.

'Dixie Knight'
This plant has an upright growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from early winter to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, informal double up to 75 mm dia with deep red blooms. Suitable for protected coastal planting in a semi shade position.

'Donckelarii Eugene Bolen'
This shrub is upright with a grey trunk and spreading branches forming a compact rounded habit. It has dark green leaves and the scarlet flowers with yellow centres appear over the plant during spring.

'Drama Girl'
This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit that is pruned at 2 metres to keep bushy with a long flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are very large size semi-double up to 120 mm dia with deep rose pink blooms. Suitable for a semi shade position.

'Donation'
This plant has an upright, loose growth habit. Flowers are silvery-rose with a touch of mauve and deeply veined. The recurved petals almost fill the centre of the flower. This plant is an excellent show plant and is used as a tub or espalier specimen. It tolerates full sun but cut flowers do not last long.

'Doris Hirst'
This early flowering plant has large double centre in creamy-white with a silky texture. It is best grown in broken light or semi-shade.

'Dr Tinsley'
It has dense compact growth habit and flowers are slightly cupped semi-double in white with a flush of pink during mid season. Slow to flower during early stage.

'Easter Morn'
This plant has a medium upright growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a large size semi to informal double up to 120 mm dia with delicate peach-pink blooms. Suitable for a semi shade position.

'Ecclefield'
It has a compact upright growth habit that is vigorous. The flowers are informal doubles large and white with a ruffled centre of petaloides and stamens. Flowering during mid season.

'Eileen Samson'
It has semi double in rosy carmine with wavy petals surrounded by golden stamens. Flowering mid to late season.

'Elegans Champagne'
This plant has a medium compact to spreading growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a large size with a double centre up to 120 mm dia with white with pale-yellow centre blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position. This plant may require heavy disbudding.

'Emperor of Russia'
A strong plant grown in full sun to shade. The flowers are informal doubles in bright deep red with a few golden stamens during mid season. Also in variegated form.

'Erin Farmer'
This plant has a medium growth habit that is upright with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a large size informal doubles up to 100 mm dia with creamy-white with pink margins on outer petals. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'Fashionata'
This plant has a vigorous growth habit that is upright with a long flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are large size semi-double up to 120 mm dia with blooms that have a pin-silvery sheen. Suitable for a semi shade position.

'Fire Dance'
This plant has an upright with a dense growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, semi-double up to 120 mm dia with orange-red blooms. Suitable for sunny position.

'Frimbriata'
This slow growing plant has large white formal double flowers that are softly fringed or feathered petals. May suffer from die back in some areas.

'Gay Pixie'
This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a medium size, semi-double up to 75 mm dia with pink to pink striped blooms. Suitable for full sun position.

'Gloire de Nantes'
This upright compact shrub produces semi-double to almost double rose-red flowers that appear from autumn to spring.

'Grandiflora Rosea'
This upright shrub produces semi double to incomplete double deep pink flowers up to 127mm (5in) wide with darker veins. The petals are undulating and the leaves are deep dark green.

'Grand Marshall'
This plant has vigorous upright growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a large size, informal double up to 110 mm dia with rich deep red blooms. Suitable for a sunny position.

'Grand Slam'
This plant has a vigorous upright open growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to winter. The flowers are a large size informal double or semi-double centre up to 120 mm dia with deep red blooms. Suitable for sunny position.

'Grand Sultan'
This plant has a squat habit and is slow growing. The flowers are large formal double in deep red, may become informal in warmer areas. Flowering mid season.

'Great Eastern'
This plant has an upright growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from late autumn to mid winter. The flowers are a large size semi-double up to 110 mm dia with rose red blooms that are white at the base. Early flowers may be small and disbudding may be required to produce large blooms. Suitable for sunny position.

'Guilio Nuccio'
Flowers are large semi double in coral rose; deeply veined petals ruffled and waved high around golden stamens. Flowering during mid season and has long flowering period. Protected position and suitable for containers.

'Gus Menard'
This plant has a vigorous upright growth habit with a flowering period from late autumn to late winter. The flowers are a large size with a double centre up to 100 mm dia with white and pale yellow centred blooms. Suitable for a semi shade position.

'Happy Holidays'
This plant has a medium growth habit that is bushy with a flowering period from early to late winter. The flowers are a large size, formal double up to 100 mm dia with pale pink blooms. Suitable for container planting in a semi shade position.

'High Fragrance'
This plant has a vigorous open growth habit with a flowering period from early to late winter. The scented flowers are a medium size peony form up to 90 mm dia with blooms that have white-pink centres and dark pink edges. Suitable for a scented garden in a semi shade position.

'High Hat'
This upright bushy shrub has dark green leaves and produces semi double pale pink flower with whitish margins and the veins are dark pink.

'Hikaru Genji'
This upright rounded shrub produces double pink flowers with white margins.

'Paul's Jupiter'syn.'Jupiter'
This vigorous upright shrub produces single carmine-rose flowers with prominent yellow stamens and white filaments from early to mid spring.

'Tricolor Red'
This upright bushy shrub has dark green foliage and produces deep red semi double flowers that are up to 102mm (4in) wide.

Camellia x williamsii
These hybrids are a result of a cross between Camellia japonicaandCamellia saluensis. The habit is simular to Camellia japonica and the flowers resemble Camellia saluensis.
There are many hybrids in this group including;

'Bowen Bryant'
This shrub is upright with dark green leaves and produces rose-pink semi double bell-shaped flowers that appear from early to late spring.

'Clarrie Fawcett'
This upright bushy shrub produces soft pink semi double flowers with yellow stamens appearing in spring.

Some of theearly Camellia japonicacultivarsare listed.

'Lady Clare'
(syn. 'Empress', 'Akashi_ Gata', 'Nellie Byl') This plant was introduced from Japan in 1887. They have loose pendulous habit with abundant large flowers.

'Adolphe Audusson'
(syn. 'Audery Hopfer', 'Adolphe').
Introduced to France in 1877.

Two types:

'A. Audussson Special'
This plant has white blooms.

'A. Audusson Varieguata'
This plant has dark red with white spots.

'Gloir de Nantes'
This plant was introduced in 1895.
This compact bush is one of the early flowering types. It is a very hardy plant.

'Alba Simplex'
( Syn, 'Snow Gouse'), 1819. This white flowered plant has an upright habit and is vigorous.

'Tricolour'
( Syn. ' Waka-no-Ura', 'Sieboldii').
This plant was introduced in 1830 and has an upright growth and is vigorous, compact. White, red or pink flowers.

'Kouron Jura '
(Syn. 'Konron-Koku')
It was introduced to California in 1939. Medium size plant with flowers that are frost resistant.