Question
I purchased a plant today and was told it is a camelia.  I don't think so, but maybe it is.  It is small and apparently only grows about 2.5 ft tall.  It has a small white flower that is an inch across with 4 petals and a tall fuzzy stamen.  There are many stems with leaves that are heart shaped, dark green in the center with bright red and yellow patches at you move to the edge of the leaf and dark red all around the edge of the leaf.  I am unsure how to care for this plant and I don't think it is a camelia as I can't seem to find any like it.

Answer
Karyl,

I've been going over in my head how anyone could possibly mistake your plant for a Camellia.  Then it hit me.  The clerk was told that it was a "Chameleon Plant" and he/she heard "Camellia" and didn't know the difference.  It's like a worker I once had who was planting tiny Marigold seedlings in a flat.  She asked how to label them.  I told her "just put Petite Yellow".  "You can see that they are Marigolds"  She replied "I can't".  Sometimes we in the industry forget just how little the world outside the gardening realm know about plants.

Good luck with your plant.

Oh, and another FYI.  The Vietnamese people eat the stuff.  They make salads from it and cook it like spinach.  From the pungent smell of the leaves, that would be tough for me to do.  

Good luck again,

John