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Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim.

Deciduous camellia, Japanese Stewartia, Japanese mountain Camelia, Japanese stewartia, Japanese stewartia

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Summary

Stewartia pseudocamellia, also known as Korean stewartia, Japanese stewartia, or deciduous camellia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Theaceae, native to Japan and Korea.

Text from Wikipedia, “Stewartia pseudocamellia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Stewartia

Stewartia is a genus of 8-20 species of flowering plants in the family Theaceae, related to Camellia. Most of the species are native to eastern Asia in China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam, with two in southeast North America, from Virginia and Kentucky south to Florida and Louisiana.

Text from Wikipedia, “Stewartia”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Theaceae
Described by
Maxim.
Native to
Japan, Korea
Wild records
983 in range· 534 open

At a glance

Warmest month
27°C
Aug, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
1837mm/yr
12 wet months · peak Jul 324 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–36DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to October in the northern hemisphere (May to October at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 1837 mm a year, wettest July at 324 mm, driest December at 47 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 36 mol/m²/day. Cold floor -8.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Stewartia grandiflora Carrière; Stewartia japonica G.Nicholson; Stewartia japonica var. grandiflora C.K.Schneid.; Stewartia koreana Nakai; Stewartia koreana Nakai ex Rehder and 1 more.

Cultivation

Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, May to October in the northern hemisphere (May to October at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1367 mm of 1837 mm) falls in May to October, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 19.4 °C against a yearly mean of 11.8 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: November to April.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 1837 mm a year, wettest July at 324 mm, driest December at 47 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

1837 mm a year at the habitat, 1367 mm of it May to October. Wettest month July at 324 mm, driest December at 47 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1403 mm to 2908 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 36 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 36 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 37).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor -8.8 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -8.8 °C, the absolute minimum -14.5 °C, about 131 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 30.5 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -5.9 °C in January (across the envelope cells -10.1 °C to -0.6 °C), warmest day 26.7 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -8.8 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 57 to 68% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 3 °C in Jan to 27 °C in Aug; mean night from -6 °C in Jan to 20 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest night. 1837 mm of rain a year, most in Jul. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 611 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was -14.5 °C and the 99th-percentile day 30.5 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.-20°-10°10°20°30°40°frost30.5° 99th-percentile day (undated)-14.5° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 16–36RH 57–68 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 611 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C3 / -1–64 / 1–79 / 5–1115 / 11–1719 / 16–2223 / 19–2526 / 23–2827 / 24–2923 / 20–2518 / 14–2011 / 8–146 / 2–9
Night °C-6 / -10–-1-5 / -9–-0-1 / -5–35 / 1–810 / 7–1315 / 12–1819 / 16–2220 / 17–2316 / 13–199 / 6–132 / -1–8-3 / -6–2
Rain mm51 / 31–23162 / 42–187103 / 64–206126 / 85–203154 / 109–244226 / 161–327324 / 199–418282 / 159–382236 / 175–341145 / 52–22581 / 47–20147 / 22–220
DLI17 / 15–2023 / 20–2528 / 26–3034 / 32–3536 / 33–3733 / 29–3530 / 27–3331 / 28–3326 / 23–2723 / 20–2517 / 16–1916 / 13–18
RH %59 / 54–6557 / 54–6458 / 55–6258 / 54–6060 / 57–6364 / 61–6868 / 65–7167 / 64–6964 / 62–6961 / 57–6560 / 56–6359 / 54–64

Each figure is the median across the 611 grid cells holding the 963 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1095:6279 (35.225, 133.975). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -14.5 °C, 1st-percentile night -8.8 °C, 99th-percentile day 30.5 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 611 distinct grid cells holding the 963 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1095:6279 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 35.00_133.750, lapse-corrected +383 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 779 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeJapan, Korea
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker36.196, 138.749 · in the densest population, 654 records (67% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 983 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 534 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 112 km away. 28 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 20 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population inside the densest 4° block of the 983 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Marco Mussita, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2); (c) りなべる, some rights reserved (CC BY); Marco Mussita, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (3); りなべる, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF; koichi kishimoto, CC BY-SA, via GBIF.

Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Stewartia pseudocamellia, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The response of water status in tree seedlings through spectral reflectance.
Chiharu Hongo, Tatsuaki Kobayashi, Yuriko Arita (1998) · Journal of the Japan society of photogrammetry and remote sensing
Phenolic Compounds from the Leaves of Stewartia pseudocamellia Maxim. and their Whitening Activities
Hyun Jung Roh, Hye-Ji Noh, Chun Su Na, Chung Sub Kim (2015) · Biomolecules & Therapeutics
A Study on the Forest Vegetation of Jirisan National Park
Jae-Hwan Gwon, Min-Kyung Sin, Hye Jin Kwon, Hokyung Song (2013) · Journal of the Korea Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
Natural occurrence ofXylella fastidiosain a commercial nursery in Maryland
Qi Huang (2007) · Canadian Journal of Plant Pathology
Flora and Conservation Plan of Gayasan National Park
Ju-Han You, Se-Kun Jeon, Jeong-Wook Seol (2013) · Journal of the Korea Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
Phenylacylphenol derivatives with anti-melanogenic activity from Stewartia pseudocamellia
Zuh-Kyung Seong, Hui‐Seong Kim, Yumi Won, Jae-Lim Kim (2016) · Archives of Pharmacal Research
Survival and Growth of Stewartia pseudocamellia Rooted Cuttings and Seedlings
Daniel Struve, L. Mark Lagrimini (1999) · Journal of Environmental Horticulture
Analysis of Ecological Index of Plant Using Flora Distributed in Temple Forest
Hyun‐Kyung Oh, Yeon-Ho Choi, Ju-Han You (2014) · Journal of Environmental Impact Assessment
Micropropagation of Stewartia pseudocamellia
Patrick J. McGuigan, Frank A. Blazich, Thomas G. Ranney (1997) · Journal of Environmental Horticulture
Floristic Study of Mt. Segeolsan in Korea
Yoon-Young Kim, Nu-Ree Na, Hye-In Song, Changgee Jang (2016) · 한국자원식물학회지

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

History & registers

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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 80 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.