Can you eat camellias?

[Jux]

Well, can you? Or are they deadly poison?

no idea about the actual flowers but the leaf is tea isn't it?

I was listening to something on Radio 4 the other week about making tea in this country, think the farm / plantation is down in Cornwall.

It depends on the type I think but most cammelia flowers are.

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Thank you. I'm not dead yet so it must have been OK, or I just didn't eat enough of it! Didn't taste particularly nice though.

Next time I'll dip it in sugar.

camellia senensis is the latin name for TEA
perhaps thats why you questioned it (it is nothing to do with the camellia bushes you see flowering during spring, which are not edible)
see this article on tea,
motheroflove.co.uk/Nutrition.html