Evening Camellia Reflections by Kaye Menner

A beautiful red white variegated camellia I capture early evening just after sunset with pretty reflections on a pond.... more

by Kaye Menner

Title

Evening Camellia Reflections by Kaye Menner

Artist

Kaye Menner

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Photograph - Photography, Digital Art, Digital Painting, Original Art By Kaye Menner

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A beautiful red white variegated camellia I capture early evening just after sunset with pretty reflections on a pond.

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Camellia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Theaceae. They are found in eastern and southern Asia, from the Himalayas east to Japan and Indonesia. There are 100 - 250 described species, with some controversy over the exact number. The genus was named by Linnaeus after the Czech Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, though he never described a camellia.

Camellias are evergreen shrubs or small trees up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. Their leaves are alternately arranged, simple, thick, serrated, and usually glossy. Their flowers are usually large and conspicuous, one to 12 cm in diameter, with five to nine petals in naturally occurring species of camellias. The colors of the flowers vary from white through pink colors to red; truly yellow flowers are found only in South China and Vietnam. Camellia flowers throughout the genus are characterized by a dense bouquet of conspicuous yellow stamens, often contrasting with the petal colors. The so-called "fruit" of camellia plants is a dry capsule, sometimes subdivided in up to five compartments, each compartment containing up to eight seeds.
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November 5th, 2014