Good afternoon. Camellia Eugenol (Camellia mountain, Sasankva)
LATIN NAME: CAMELLIA SASANGOA.
Sprawling evergreen shrub, Camellia eugenol (mountain) is grown not only as an ornamental plant. Its leaves and fruits contain a large number of essential oils, which are used for making perfume and confectionery fragrances, antiseptics, in microscopic technique and soap making.
Twigs thin, brown-green or reddish. Leaves are leathery, dark green, sit on short petioles. Flowers in comparison with other Camellias are very large. The petals are wide open, depending on the cultivar pink or white. Flowering during the month from September to December, fruits - red-brown dry capsules - ripen only by the next fall.
