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OBJECTIVO
The purpose of this site is to promote the dissemination of the camellia flower and its japoneira the tree, especially in Portugal.
Facilitate communication between the lovers of camellia, personalities, institutions and owners of gardens, ponds, gardens of business and tourism.
In addition to generally aware of activities around the world, with the focus more of our neighbors and brothers Galicians.
With our interest in and camellia gardens, maybe we demand, often not aware of something that already exists, is close and humanity itself has always been to flee, even from the Garden of Eden - NATURE.
That the camel is a way to bring more people and conscencializar for the preservation of nature in these times in which it has never been threatened by man and not live without it. |
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Responsibility
When you appreciate a garden of camels, despite the immense joy that gives me, reminds me of a beautiful cage living plants that have been displaced from its natural environment. "It will be suffering for having been taken of their land for sites as many times as far away?
Whoever comes will have the sufficient capacity to accommodate and to feel as if they were at home? Studies, and participates with the other seeks to achieve this?
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Brief history and places in Portugal.
Japoneira is the name we give to the camellia tree. "At the time of the Portuguese discoveries were the first Westerners to have contact and trade relations with Japan, starting in 1570 (the port of Nagasaki) and exclusive art and even 1638, and there was the expulsion of missionaries and closing up for 2 centuries. For these reasons the camellia has been brought from Japan to Europe already this season. Portugal and Japan use the word "tea", also used in Cantonese (mean spoon catch), the European countries usually give you the name from "you", the Malay word drink, English tea, tea in Spanish, French Th We all know that the dowry for marriage of Catherine of Braganza, daughter of King John IV, the King Charles II of England in the year of 1661, was part of a tea chest (besides the cities of Bombay and Tangier) and that the queen announced that parents in the habit of drinking tea. "Only in 1735 the Swedish naturalist Carl von Lineu, in his Species Plantarum, the plant was christened with the name of camellia, in honor of the Jesuit Georg Kamel, who was missionary in the Philippines. "In the early 18th century and 19 and camellia gardens have been given greater importance in Europe and was the English who most contributed to its dissemination, and Portugal followed the fashion. Thus, were introduced many varieties of camels imported from Italy, England and other countries, by Van Zeller, Marques Loureiro, the Villar of Allen, Jacinto de Matos and others, which created a lot of Portuguese varieties and magnificent gardens with camels. "In the 20th century continued Moreira da Silva, Jos Gil Ferreira and Veiga in collaboration with the Galicians Ordizola, Aran and the English Miss Tait, Rigall and Gibson. "Today the people of the north, especially of Porto, Santo Tirso de Basto and Celorico and the Azores (where the only tea plantations in Europe) have had with their exhibits lit the flame of camellia. In any garden of Northern Ireland for at least a camellia, from Viana do Castelo through Ponte de Lima, Braga, Terras de Basto, Porto, Vila Real and Viseu up, not forgetting Sintra now further south in the Algarve and the Sierra of Monchique. |
Camellia in gardens.
Scientifically belong to the genus Camellia Camlia, the family Theaceae, order Ericales, class Magnoliopsida, division Magnoliophyta kingdom Plantae and 'The best known species of camellia and more varieties is Japonica. "There is also a sheet reticulata with clearer and more pointed and wavy petals, the small-flowered sasanqua and perfumed, the sinensis (from the camellia tea) and the hybrid, which are of 2 types of camels. "Today is produced new species and varieties, some from existing in nature.
It has a great capacity for change and variety of colors, size, size and flowering, and the ornamental species most frequently used by lovers of gardens
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