Specimen drawings
Nodule tea is a camellia plant of the camellia family, produced in Ropin (type specimen origin); It grows at an altitude of 700–800 m in evergreen shrubland along river valleys.
The flowers of nodule tea are similar to camellias, both of which give people a white, noble feeling, and the flowers bloom in November and bloom in winter.
It is a shrub with a height of 3 meters and young shoots without glabrous or slightly hairy. The leaves are thin leathery, oblong or oblong lanceolate, 8–12 cm long and 2.5–4.5 cm wide, tapering at the apex, wedge-shaped or broadly wedge-shaped at the base, olive green after drying above, glossy, glabrous, light olive green below, slightly hairy, with black glandular spots, 7-8 pairs of lateral veins, slightly sunken above, slightly protruding below, sparsely toothed at the edges, 2–5 mm apart, petioles 7–10 mm long, hairy at first, and bald later.
The flowers are apex, white, nearly sessile, the bracts are 10-11 pieces, gradually enlarged inward, inverted ovate, the outermost 2-3 pieces are 4-5 mm long, the remaining 8 pieces are 1-1.6 cm long, and there are micro-hairs on the outside. Petals 2 cm long, stamens 1 cm long, hairy ovary, 4-5 chambers; The flower pillars are 4-5 strips, 1.5 cm long, hairy. The capsules are spherical, 1.8–2.2 cm in diameter, with a nodular bulge in the peel, 2–2.5 mm thick, 1 seed per chamber, semi-oval in shape, 1.3–1.5 cm long, hairy, with a very short stalk and a calyx at the top.