Camellie con sfondo mimosa

Superbement rendu ..!

Love those colors and that beautiful bokeh.

Splendid bokeh! As to the mutation question.... Some Camellia blossoms start out dark and fade to almost white as they age. Some are also sensitive to lighting conditions and produce darker flowers on branches that get more sun and lighter flowers on branches that get very little sun. Not that cross-breeding isn't a possibility -- I've seen some graft one color variety onto a diff't shrub so they can get diff't colored blossoms on the same plant (seemingly), but it's not as common with Camellias as, say, Rose of Sharon and Apple trees.

this is the plant and you can see that there are white flowers not already faded.
Perhaps a hybrid that in part returns to the original ?

Yeah, it does look more like a mutation than hybridization.... Are you positive it's all one plant, though? My only reservations to the mutation would be the certainty that you're definitely looking at one shrub and, also, tracing the branches having different colors to their connection to the main trunk & looking for the tell-tale marks of grafting. Not trying to be argumentative, it's just that, when the suspected mutation is this evenly split on a plant, it's more plausible that it was done intentionally... Mutations are usually more random. So, if you have the opportunity to do so, have a closer look at the shrub to answer the questions I posed.... Of course, this is assuming you really want the answer -- sometimes we can just be satisfied with the results and not worry so much about the why ;) I'm the type who'd want to investigate if possible. I did that with one of my neighborhood cherry trees which has pink blossoms on half the tree and white ones on the other half; when I looks closely, I found that the white blossoms were those of an apple tree which someone grafted onto the cherry tree's main trunk.

yes, I'm always curious, I love to learn too...
I'll be back to that plant and try to investigate better :)

Hello Nora,
thanks for the presentation of this interesting phenomenon. I found an explanation in the German version of wikipedia and it says translated to English: "The camellia is a grateful cultivated plant that often forms at some branches mutations. For example suddenly change the flower color, flower shape or leaves on a branch. If you take a root of this branch, the new features are maintained." See: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamelie
I think this is an understandable explanation.

many thanks for your explanation, very appreciated !

A really very pretty and interesting camellia bush!

Je n'avais pas réalisé que ton camélia était bicolore. C'est vraiment extraordinaire !
Le fond mimosa est vraiment superbe !

Stunning photo.

nice impression

Cet arbre est magnifique..!

Mjuy bella imagen. Nora, las camelias sufren mucho en invierno. Nosotros tuvimos camelias y las acabamos quitando. Gran foto. Mi mas cordial saludo. Eduardo.