Tea seed oil

Camellia sasanqua is also given as a source of 'tea seed oil.

[1] The genus Camellia includes several commercially important species - Camellia oleifera is grown mainly in China for vegetable oil.

[2] As of 2016 4,000,000 hectares (9,900,000 acres) of oleifera forest centered on the Yangtze river basin in Hunan, Jiangxi, and Guangxi produces 0.26 million tons of oil.

[2] Wild Camellia oleifera contains ~47% oil, whilst cultivated varieties have shown oil content from 42 to 53%.

[4] With its high smoke point of 252 °C (486 °F),[5] tea seed oil is the main cooking oil in some of the southern provinces of People's Republic of China, such as Hunan, especially in mountainous regions; roughly one-seventh of the country's population.