Umegaki
Key Attributes
| Cultivar Name | Umegaki |
| Species | Camellia sasanqua |
| Primary Color | pink |
| Color Pattern | solid |
| Bloom Form | single |
| Bloom Season | early |
| Fragrance | light fragrance possible |
| Growth Habit | bushy |
About this Camellia cultivar
Umegaki is a Camellia sasanqua cultivar listed in the International Camellia Register. The name and register context indicate it is a sasanqua camellia, a group known for smaller, earlier-season flowers and a graceful evergreen shrub habit. Specific flower details are not provided in the supplied metadata, so the bloom is inferred to be a typical sasanqua-type blossom, likely single to semi-double, with light pink coloration suggested by the Japanese name association and common sasanqua forms. It is valued as an ornamental autumn to early-winter flowering camellia with glossy evergreen foliage.
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