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Plant: Winter's Fire - Hybrid Camellia
Camellia hyb. · Camellia 'Winter's Fire'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Winter's Fire is a cold-hardy Ackerman hybrid camellia, hardy to about -10 degrees F, with upright growth and glossy dark green evergreen leaves. Medium semidouble flowers in bright reddish pink with yellow anthers open from mid fall into early winter. It does best in partial shade with rich, acidic, evenly moist, well-drained soil.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 10 ft tall and 8 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Winter's Fire is a cold-hardy Ackerman hybrid camellia, hardy to about -10 degrees F, with upright growth and glossy dark green evergreen leaves. Medium semidouble flowers in bright reddish pink with yellow anthers open from mid fall into early winter. It does best in partial shade with rich, acidic, evenly moist, well-drained soil.
- Flowers
- Medium semidouble flowers in bright reddish pink with yellow anthers and white filaments, opening from mid fall into early winter.
- Foliage
- Leathery, glossy, dark green evergreen leaves with crenate to moderately serrate margins.
- Fruit
- Insignificant small woody capsule.
- Bark & stems
- Smooth sandy brown bark (Winter series group).
- Light
- Dappled/Filtered Light
- Native range
- Hybrid (Camellia oleifera x C. sasanqua x C. vernalis 'Takarazuka') bred by William L. Ackerman, Ashton, Maryland; registered 1992
