the CAMELIA is a kind of plants with flowers of the family of the Theaceae , originating in Eastern Asia and Southerner of the east since the Himalayan chain with the Japan and in Indonesia. The number of species which the kind contains differs according to the botanists, and varies between 100 to 250 species.

The first shrub was introduced for the first time in Europe in 1752 by a Jesuit, the Camelli Father or Kamel from where the generic name of the CAMELIA which Linné gave.

the CAMELIA is the kind of the camellias but also tea plants.

The principal species of Théier is the CAMELIA sinensis . Its dried sheets are used for the clothes industry of this beverage.

Principal species

• the CAMELIA assimilis

• the CAMELIA brevistyla
• the CAMELIA caudata
• the CAMELIA chekiangoleosa
• the CAMELIA chrysantha
• the CAMELIA connata
• the CAMELIA crapnelliana
• the CAMELIA cuspidata
• the CAMELIA euryoides
• the CAMELIA forrestii
• the CAMELIA fraterna
• the CAMELIA furfuracea
• the CAMELIA granthamiana
• the CAMELIA grijsii
• the CAMELIA honkongensis
• the CAMELIA irrawadiensis
• the CAMELIA japonica L. - Camélia of Japan
• the CAMELIA kissii
• the CAMELIA lutchuensis
• the CAMELIA miyagii
• the CAMELIA nokoensis
• the CAMELIA will oleifera
• the CAMELIA will parviflora
• the CAMELIA pitardii
• the CAMELIA polyodonta
• the CAMELIA reticulata - (Emblême of the Chinese Province of the Yunnan)
• the CAMELIA will rosiflora
• The CAMELIA rusticana
• the CAMELIA salicifolia
• the CAMELIA saluenensis
• the CAMELIA sasanqua Thunb.
• the CAMELIA semiserrata
• the CAMELIA sinensis (L.) Kuntze - Tea plant
• the CAMELIA taliensis
• the CAMELIA transnokoensis
• the CAMELIA tsaii
• the CAMELIA vietnamensis
• the CAMELIA yunnanensis

External bonds

Simple: The CAMELIA