Hexagonal Red Camellia: A Chinese Red Beauty

The Heksagonalni crvena Kamelija, is a variety of camellia with a beautiful tree shape, full and upright branches, thick green ovate leaves with teeth. Its growth is relatively slow.

When it blooms, the petals are hexagonal in shape, and the color is a very bright red, hence its name. The petals of the Hexagonal Red Camellia are concave and thick, and there are no white spots or stripes in the center petals.

The whole flower is a very bright “Chinese Red”, and the diameter of the flower can even reach more than 12 centimeters. It’s a feast for the eyes and highly valued for its ornamental qualities.

I. Basic Introduction

The flower is a bright red color, fully double type, and a very small number of flowers are “Rose double type or Peony type”.

It’s a large flower, the diameter can reach 10 to 12 centimeters or more. The petals, more than a hundred in number, are arranged in a hexagonal tile shape.

II. Form and Characteristics

The “Hexagonal Red” is also known as “Songyang Red”. It has a beautiful tree shape, full and upright branches, thick green ovate leaves with teeth. Its growth is relatively slow.

The original “Songyang Red” flower can reach a diameter of 10 to 12 centimeters or more, most of the flowers are “hexagonal tile-shaped neatly arranged” and “wheel-shaped spiral neatly arranged”, with 8 to 10 rounds of petals or more, each flower has over a hundred petals, fully double type.

There are also a very few flowers of the “Rose double type or Peony type”.

The flower blooms for two weeks in low temperatures and one week in high temperatures. From the beginning of the bloom to wilting, the petals remain upright and do not turn back or fade noticeably.

When it blooms in low temperatures, the edges of the petals do not burn, and in high temperatures and heavy rain, the center of the flower does not burst, all fully open.

The petals of the “Songyang Red” are concave and thick, and there are no white spots or stripes in the center petals. The whole flower is a very bright “Chinese Red”. The wilting flowers fall off completely on their own, without any dead flowers hanging on the branches.

III. Values and Others

Main Value

The petals of the “Songyang Red” are concave and thick, and there are no white spots or stripes in the center petals. The whole flower is a very bright “Chinese Red”.

The wilting flowers fall off completely on their own, without any dead flowers hanging on the branches. It has ornamental value.