Editing Camellia (section)

==Cultural significance==
[[File:New Zealand Suffragette.jpg|thumb|Portrait of a New Zealand [[suffragette]], {{Circa|1880}}. The sitter wears a white camellia, symbolic of support for advancing women's rights.]]
The Camellia family of plants in popular culture. 
* The following cities are nicknamed the "Camellia City" of each state: [[Greenville, Alabama]]; [[Sacramento, California]]; [[Fort Walton Beach, Florida]]; [[Slidell, Louisiana]]; [[McComb, Mississippi]]; and [[Newberg, Oregon]]. Meanwhile, [[Thomson, Georgia]], is nicknamed the "Camellia City of the South".
* The camellia is the [[List of U.S. state flowers|state flower]] of [[Alabama]].<ref>{{cite web |title= State Flower of Alabama |work= Official Symbols and Emblems of Alabama |publisher= Alabama Department of Archives and History |date= February 6, 2014 |url= http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_flowe.html |access-date= 2019-05-07 |archive-date= 2012-07-28 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120728100503/http://www.archives.state.al.us/emblems/st_flowe.html |url-status= dead }}</ref>
* A postseason college football [[bowl game]] introduced in 2014 in [[Montgomery, Alabama]], was first known as the [[Camellia Bowl (2014–present)|Camellia Bowl]].
* [[Alexandre Dumas fils]] wrote the novel and stage adaptation ''[[The Lady of the Camellias]]'', wherein the flower is a symbol of a courtesan's sexual availability. 
* [[Augusta National Golf Club]]'s 10th hole is named "Camellia", one of many references to the plant nursery originally on the site of the course. 
* [[Rabindranath Tagore]] wrote a poem titled "Camellia" about a youth's longing for a young woman he sees on the train.
* In the book ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'', Jem destroys Mrs. Dubose's camellia bushes after she insults his family, yet he later receives a camellia bud from the dying woman.
* A white camellia flower is an iconic symbol of [[Chanel]] [[haute couture]], a tradition started by [[Coco Chanel]] herself, who identified with the heroine of Dumas's work.
* Camellias have major significance in the [[Akira Kurosawa]] film ''[[Sanjuro]]'', likely due to their association with the concept of "a noble death" in samurai culture.
* White camellias are a symbol of the women's [[suffrage]] movement in New Zealand and appear on the country's [[New Zealand ten-dollar note|ten-dollar note]].
* The [[Knights of the White Camelia]] was an organization similar to the [[Ku Klux Klan]].
* [[Temple City, California]]'s slogan since 1944 has been "Temple City, Home of Camellias", and the city has become well-known for its Camellia Festival.
* In Brazil, the camellia was a symbol of [[abolitionism|abolitionist movement]] during the Imperial Age. It was common practice for abolitionists to plant camellias in solidarity.<ref>{{cite web |title = Camellia: The "Winter's Rose" |author=Toni Boornazian |publisher= Stuyvesant Park Neighborhood Association |date=November 23, 2020 |url= https://www.spnanyc.org/camellia-the-winters-rose/ |access-date= 2022-08-10}}</ref>
* An Argentinian military march is called "[[Avenida de las Camelias]]".
* Camellia flowers are featured on the cover of ''[[The Silent Circus]]'', the second studio album by American [[progressive metal]] band [[Between the Buried and Me]].