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Jesse Saylor
(Yak Rhododendron, Yakushima Rhododendron)
Here is one of the most lovely and visually interesting rhododendrons! Not only are the leaves glossy with brown undersides, the flowers in spring are a blend of white and pink like a melting swirl of a strawberry sundae. A compact, tightly foliaged broadleaf evergreen shrub from Japan, the Yak rhododendron is endemic to the island of Yakushima, just south of Kyusyu. Here it grows on mountain slopes alongside laurels and Japanese cedars.
Glossy dark green leaves first emerge covered in a pale...
Auburn University Horticulture Department, Auburn, AL
(Evergreen Azalea, Satsuki Hybrid Azalea, Yama-no-Hikari Evergreen Azalea)
The Satsuki Azalea ‘Yama-no-hikari' is a broadleaf evergreen shrub whose large single white blooms are striped, flecked, or tinged coral-pink. Solid pink flowers also occur. The many funnel shaped blooms are borne in few-flowered clusters in mid- to late spring. The small leaves are elliptical and glossy green. The low slow-growing plants are spreading, well branched and dense.
Prized for their large flowers and compact habit, Satsuki Azaleas descend from Rhododendron indicum, Rhododendron...
The U.S. National Arboretum
(Evergreen Azalea, Glenn Dale Azalea, Youth Azalea)
Comprising more than 400 cultivars, the Glenn Dale hybrid azaleas were developed from the late 1920s through the 1940s at the United States Department of Agriculture’s Plant Introduction Station at Glenn Dale, Maryland. This breeding program was initiated by Benjamin Y. Morrison, the first director of the United States National Arboretum. These relatively cold-hardy evergreen azaleas are complex hybrids involving many Asian and North American rhododendrons.
These small to medium-sized shrubs...
Maureen Gilmer
(New Guinea Vireya Rhododendron)
A magnificent tropical rhododendron with spectacular fiery orange-yellow flowers, Rhododendron zoelleri is native to the Moluccas of Indonesia eastward across the highland rainforests of New Guinea. It is usually found growing in mossy cliffs but also is an epiphyte, growing upon the trunk of trees high up in the forest canopy.
Being a shrub or small tree, there is much variation in growth rate, mature size, flower color and profusion as they are most often grown as seedlings. Their...
