Camelias near Florence

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There is a place, close to Florence, where Camellia's plants grow as shrubs and trees in February and March as you were in East Asian. Come and visit two rural villages in the beautiful Tuscan countryside, Sant'Andrea and Pieve di Compito (in the municipality of Capannori), where among typical stone houses, pinewoods, olive groves  and a gurgling stream you can follow the Camellia's Path during the wonderful Ancient Camellia's of Lucchesia Show that takes place in March 2011. Introduced during the XIX century, several different species of this evergreen plant have been successfully cultivated thanks to the warm-humid climate of these hills . So a great variety of Camellias  (single petal, semi-double, double flower, anemone form and peony form flower) with their showy white, red, pink, jellow, or variegated blossoms such as the  Camellia  japonica (common camellia) or the C. crysanta, C. sasanqua, the C. oleifera  and the newly cultivated  C. sinensis for tea show themselves  to botanists, art historians and flower enthusiasts.

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