Species Camellia sinensis
Pictures from Observations
There aren’t any identifications of Camellia sinensis.
Range:
Location unknown
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Etymology of Camellia:
For Georg Joseph Kamel (La. Camellus) (1661–1706), Moravian Jesuit missionary, apothecary, artist and botanist. He was sent to the Mariana Islands (1683) and Manila, Philippines (1688) where he established a pharmacy, providing poor people with remedies for free. He botanised on Luzon island, north of Manila, collecting some 360 varieties of plants and herbs which he sent to the British botanists, Rev. John Ray, and James Petiver, who published Herbarium aliarumque stirpium in insula Luzone Philippinarum (Herbs and Medicinal Plants in the Island of Luzon, Philippines). Further specimens came from Chinese gardens at Manila. His first shipment of botanical drawings failed to reach England as a result of piracy. Kamel also co-wrote the first account of Philippine birds, Observationes de Avibus Philippensibus (1702), published by the Royal Society.
Etymology of sinensis:
From China
Scientific name:
Camellia sinensis (L.) Kuntze
Synonym of:
Unknown
Long etymology:
Protologue:
Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 10: 195 (1887)
Synonym status:
Year published:
1887
Observations of Taxon
There aren’t any identifications of Camellia sinensis.