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Micropropagation of Camellia spp.

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High-Tech and Micropropagation III

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In 1689 the Dutch physician and botanist André Cley published a Latin work mentioning a plant called the “tzumacky”, a transcription of the Japanese name “tsubaki” (Odriozola 1986). The same name was used in association with the descriptions and drawings of James Petiver in 1702 and Engelbert Kaempfer in 1712. In Linnaeus’ Sistema Natura of 1735, the plant figures as Camellia tsubaki, the genus being dedicated to the Moravian Jesuit Kamel, and it is not until the appearance of his Species Plantarum (which also features the tea-plant Thea sinensis, now C. sinensis) that it acquires its present systematic name, Camellia japonica.

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Vieitez, A.M., Vieitez, M.L., Ballester, A., Vieitez, E. (1992). Micropropagation of Camellia spp.. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) High-Tech and Micropropagation III. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 19. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07770-2_23

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