海沿いで暖かいのか、もう花を咲かせていた。
Camellia japonica usually blooms in early spring, but it has already bloomed probably because it is warm on the coast.
Uncommon in fire-suppressed pine savanna; the form that occupies pine savannas seems slightly different from the form occupying swamps and margins of streams
Skycat this is the specimen you identified, thank you very much. It’s at least 5 m or 6 m tall and there are three or four others in the vicinity but this is the only one in flower at the moment, it has multiple flower buds so I assume it’s going to flower on and off for the next month or two.