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Camellia sasanqua ‘Crimson King’

ith festive rose-red flowers x ‘Yuletide’, which flowers from November to January with similarly festive red blooms. Grow these graceful evergreen shrubs in moist but well-drained, neutral or acid soil in sun or dappled shade.

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