Camellia japonica 'Pink Parade' has semi-double blooms with lightly to heavily ruffled petals in shades of light to mid pink.

Camellia japonica 'Silver Waves' is a lovely pure white semi-double cultivar with golden anthers.

Camellia japonica 'Silver Waves' is a lovely pure white semi-double cultivar with golden anthers.

Camellia japonica 'Spring's Promise' has lovely single rosy red to deep pink flowers that are 2-3 inches wide. Hardy to zone 6.

Camellia japonica 'Swan Lake' has beautiful, double flowers in shades of pure white and cream from mid to late season.

Camellia japonica 'Vestito Rosso' has stunning, formal, crimson red flowers that bloom over a long period.

Camellia japonica 'Vestito Rosso' has stunning, formal, crimson red flowers that bloom over a long period.

Camellia oleifera is a rare tea relative that is used to produce nutritious tea oil.

Camellia sasanqua 'Apple Blossom' offers beautiful, small, white flowers with pink tips in great profusion from fall through winter.

Camellia sasanqua 'Chansonette's Blush' offers beautiful light to mid pink flowers in profusion on wide-spreading plants.

Camellia sasanqua 'Cleopatra' offers beautiful, simple, pink, fragrant flowers flushed with white.

Camellia sasanqua 'Kanjiro' offers a profusion of small, lightly fragrant, bright cerise pink, semi double flowers with reddish edges.

Camellia sasanqua 'Mine-No-Yuki' ('White Doves') offers beautiful icy white, semi-double flowers with an informal structure.

Camellia sasanqua 'Mine-No-Yuki' ('White Doves') offers beautiful icy white, semi-double flowers with an informal structure.

Camellia sasanqua 'Pink-a-Boo' offers a profusion of wonderfully fragrant, small, pink, single flowers with cheerful yellow stamens.

Camellia sasanqua 'Setsugekka' offers a profusion of fragrant, snow white, flowers with cheerful yellow stamens.

Camellia sasanqua 'Showa-No-Sakae' offers beautiful soft to mid pink, semi-double flowers in profusion

Camellia sasanqua 'Yuletide' offers a profusion of wonderfully fragrant, small, red, single flowers with cheerful yellow stamens.

Camellia 'Blushing Maiden' is a pink-flowered tea plant hardier than other varieties.

Camellia sinensis 'Karatum' is prized for its upright, easy-to-harvest form and vigorous growth perfect for containers or for use as an edible hedge.

This hardy tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is from the Boseong region of Korea, famous for its annual Green Tea Festival each September.

Camellia sinensis 'Large Leaf' is a tea plant from China that produces abundance of shoots to harvest from.

Camellia sinensis 'Small Leaf' is grown in Japan and produces a mild flavoured tea.

Camellia sinensis 'Sochi Select' is prized for its abundant foliage perfect for making green or black teas.

Sochi Tea Seedling is a hardy tea plant (Camellia sinensis) from the area around Sochi, Russia, where they produce the most northerly tea in the world.