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  • From: "Greg or Marie Jordan" <mgjordan@concentric.net>
  • To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] fruit exporing for oil producing fruits (camellias)
  • Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 18:35:25 -0800

How hardy is it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Lee" <markl@nytec.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 12:49 PM
Subject: [NAFEX] fruit exporing for oil producing fruits (camellias)


> I was researching olives as a novel edible landscaping plant for my garden
> in Seattle about a month ago. Today I ran across a plant fact that really
> surprised me. There is a camellia grown in China, Camellia oleifera,
whose
> seed contains 40-50% oil. The quality of this vegetable cooking oil is
> similar to olive oil. Roughly one out of seven people in China eat food
> prepared with this oil, mainly in Hunan. Annual production is around
> 500,000 tonnes. Why haven't I ever heard of this plant before? It is one
> of the hardiest of camellias. It has recently been used to produce a line
> of cold hardy camellias in a breeding program in the US. The arboretum in
> Seattle lists this plant in its inventory. I don't know how it will do as
> far as producing oil in my garden, but I definitely want to have a few as
a
> conversation piece.
> -Mark Lee, Seattle z7
>
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