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Specific Families and Genera => Rhododendron and other Ericaceae => Topic started by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2012, 03:11:58 PM

Title: Rhododendron from ACE seed - but which rhodo ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2012, 03:11:58 PM

We've got a super rhodo  flowering now. Grown from ACE seed... lost number. Any help with an ID?

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Mar211332339999BULB_LOG__1212.pdf

Title: Re: Rhododendron from ACE seed - but which rhodo ?
Post by: Maggi Young on March 21, 2012, 03:25:18 PM

See more photos of that rhodo here :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8819.msg239116#msg239116 (http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8819.msg239116#msg239116)

Rhood is ID'd as R. uvariifolium

Nice quote from Bulb Log thread :

Quote from: johnw on March 28, 2012, 10:28:37 PM

Maggi will be far too modest to mention this so I will intervene.

When their super rhodo was posted I sent a link off to Steve Hootman, curator of the Rhododendron Species Foundation, to help with an identification just minutes before Jens came to the rescue.  Steve had been away and wrote the following this afternoon:

"That rhododendron is a very fine example (one of the best I have seen) of the Chinese form of uvariifolium (vs. the Tibetan form known as uvariifolium var. griseum)."

Well done Ian and Maggi1


johnw