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Camellia Leaf Issues #302118

Asked February 20, 2016, 11:55 PM EST

(Asking from sunny Southern California!)  We planted four camellias at the end of December, and just this week, this has shown up on three of them.  We've never seen anything like it and we haven't been able to find anything via search.

The one that doesn't have this is a camellia sasanqua 'Kanjiro' semi-double; the three that do are camellia japonica, two red ones called Tom Knudsen 'formal to rose form' and I don't recall the third, other than it's pink and also a 'formal to rose form'.

San Bernardino County California

Expert Response

Judging by the symptoms and the timing of symptom onset, I would suggest that this is a symptom of transplant shock.  How large were the plants at planting?  Potted plants?  What is the irrigation timing and amount?  What has the weather been since you planted them?  Different types of plants have different ability to withstand stress such as planting, so this may explain why one type is not showing the same symptoms as the others.  Or it may have been smaller, or had a better root system, etc.
Carrie Lapaire Harmon, PhD Replied February 23, 2016, 9:35 AM EST

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