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Having decided that the garden needed more rhododendrons I seem to have set about obtaining every oddity
available which wasn't the point. This one produces a few strange thin petalled flowers. Those I know in other gardens
are curious rather than beautiful. It went in and was immediately trimmed back by the rabbits so I'm not expecting flowers
for a couple of years. Sadly it didn't survive. The International Rhododendron Register says: "Evergreen azalea: selection from R. stenopetalum. Named: P.F. von Siebold & J.G. Zuccarini (1846). Fls 3-5/truss, broadly funnel-shaped, up to 40 x 70mm, 5-lobed and divided almost to base with lobes spreading, purplish red/purplish pink (66), with deeper markings. Calyx up to 23mm long, green. Lvs lanceolate, up to 80 x 8mm, dull green above, sparsely glandular hairy on both surfaces. AM 1984 (Probably originated in Japan but not known in the wild)." |
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| 11th June 2012 | ||