Camellia sinensis var sinensis "Small Leaf"

These seedlings develop into excellent landscape shrubs with a compact and container friendly, branching habit.  Medium-green leaves with irregular serrations remain less than 4" x 2.5" at maturity.  This cold-hardy variety is widely grown in Japan and favored for producing mild-flavored tea. These are descendants of a tea plant found on the University of North Carolina campus. Some of these plants survived our -9F winter in 1985.

Zones 7a-9
10 year size: 6'T x 6'W