Margaret Higdon
Key Attributes
| Cultivar Name | Margaret Higdon |
| Species | Camellia japonica |
| Primary Color | rose red |
| Secondary Color | white |
| Color Pattern | sometimes white-margined petals |
| Bloom Form | semi-double |
| Bloom Season | mid-season |
| Growth Habit | bushy |
About this Camellia cultivar
Camellia japonica 'Margaret Higdon' is a medium-flowered japonica cultivar noted for its rose-red semi-double blooms, sometimes showing white-margined petals. The flowers appear full and decorative, with layered petals and prominent central stamens partly visible, giving the bloom a refined but lively appearance. Based on its classification as a Camellia japonica and the reference description, it is an ornamental evergreen shrub suited to landscape and garden display, likely with glossy dark green foliage and a bushy to upright habit typical of japonica cultivars.
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