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Companies press Japan’s native camellia flowers for age old—and ageless—beauty
“Camellia flowers bloom in the winter, that’s what’s so special about them,” says Tekeo Ogawa, Oshima’s resident expert on the camellia japonica. Ogawa has been running a camellia nursery on the island, famous for the flower, for 50 years.
Japan’s native camellias (called tsubaki in Japanese) can be found from Okinawa to Aomori, but it...





















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