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Plant: Brandy's Temper - Sasanqua Camellia
Camellia sas. · Camellia sasanqua 'Brandy's Temper'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Brandy's Temper is a sasanqua camellia with an upright, semi-weeping habit and dark green glossy evergreen leaves. Medium to large semidouble flowers in fuchsia pink with yellow anthers open from fall into winter. Like other sasanquas it takes full sun to partial shade in well-drained, acidic to neutral soil and works as an accent, hedge or foundation plant.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 7-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Brandy's Temper is a sasanqua camellia with an upright, semi-weeping habit and dark green glossy evergreen leaves. Medium to large semidouble flowers in fuchsia pink with yellow anthers open from fall into winter. Like other sasanquas it takes full sun to partial shade in well-drained, acidic to neutral soil and works as an accent, hedge or foundation plant.
- Flowers
- Semidouble medium to large flowers in fuchsia pink with yellow anthers and white filaments; sasanqua season is late fall into winter.
- Foliage
- Simple, alternate, lustrous dark green evergreen leaves 1.5 to 3 inches long; new growth sometimes emerges bronze.
- Fruit
- A woody capsule about 1 inch long (species).
- Bark & stems
- Slender stems, often reddish to purplish when young (species).
- Pruning
- Can be pruned into a small tree form. Next year's blossoms appear on old growth, so prune right after flowering.
- Native range
- Japan (species)
