About

A robust, deciduous sub-shrub to about 1m tall from the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia, with small, paired, bright green, broadly obovate leaflets and upright clusters of small, white, four-petalled flowers in summer, followed by distinctive winged seed capsules. An unusual ornamental for a dry, sunny, well-drained border or gravel garden.

About the genus

Rhododendron can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple leaves, sometimes with a dense colourful indumentum of hairs on the lower side, and funnel-shaped, bell-shaped or tubular flowers that may be solitary or in short racemes

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