Duchess Decazes

An old camellia cultivar listed in the International Camellia Register as 'Duchesse Decazes'. It is most likely a Camellia japonica of historic European origin. Although the provided metadata gives limited descriptive detail, this cultivar is generally understood to be an ornamental japonica grown for its formal garden flowers and evergreen foliage. In the absence of a usable flower image here, the bloom is inferred to be pink and double to formal-double in style, with a typical mid-season flowering period and an upright to bushy shrub habit characteristic of many older japonica cultivars.