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Thursday, 26 March 2015
Camellia japonica
This type of camellia is called 'otome-tsubaki' in Japanese. 'otome' means 'maiden' in English. I like Camellia japonica f. otome best. According to Wikipedia, it is the rare example that a scientific name just became the English name.
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