Elegans Splendor
Key Attributes
| Cultivar Name | Elegans Splendor |
| Species | Camellia japonica |
| Primary Color | pink |
| Secondary Color | light pink |
| Color Pattern | solid with slight tonal variation |
| Bloom Form | peony |
| Bloom Season | mid-season |
| Growth Habit | bushy |
About this Camellia cultivar
Camellia japonica 'Elegans Splendor' is a japonica cultivar noted for its very full, ornate blooms and showy garden presence. The flowers are typically large and richly petaled, with a lush peony-to-anemone style appearance created by broad outer guard petals surrounding a dense, petaloid center. Based on the reference context and established characteristics of the Elegans group, this cultivar is pink overall, often with soft tonal variation toward lighter pink in the inner petaloids. It is an ornamental evergreen shrub valued for glossy dark green foliage and a dense, bushy habit. Like many Camellia japonica cultivars, it is primarily a late winter to spring bloomer and is grown for landscape display, specimen planting, and cut flowers.
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