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Camellia

Named after a person (Latinized surname)

“named in honor of Georg Kamel”

Where it comes from

named after botanist Georg Joseph Kamel

Fun Fact

Carl Linnaeus named the genus in 1753 after the Jesuit botanist Georg Joseph Kamel, who worked in the Philippines, although Linnaeus did not draw on Kamel's own account of the plant.

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