The International Camellia Society is a non-profit organization devoted to the genus Camellia, founded April 1962. Its yearly publication is the International Camellia Journal.   As the official registrar for the genus Camellia, the ICS maintains the International Camellia Register, both hard copy and as the online Web Camellia Register.   The ICS is also an important center for research in the genus Camellia, through its Otomo Fund. The society has more than 2,000 members worldwide.

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Camellia of the Month

C.kissi hybrid 'Buttermint' is described by our friends at Nuccio's Nursery in California, U.S., as "very creamy white to pale yellow.  Formal to rose form, sometimes peony.  Miniature.  Very profuse.  Medium, upright growth.  Early to Late."

This year, the plant, in our narrow front garden in London, came into bloom on Christmas Day -- exceptionally early for these creamy little buttons!  Our plant is still quite young, but growing very happily next to a much older 'Jury's Yellow,' which began blooming on December 28.  It is a very precocious season -- what a pleasant opening for the New Year 2012.

Send the ICS website a photo of one of your favourite camellias for our "Camellia of the month" display. Tell us a little bit about it -- where it originated and when, and why you like it!