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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: WimB on July 04, 2010, 02:31:45 PM

Title: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: WimB on July 04, 2010, 02:31:45 PM

Here's a pic of a Rhodo which is flowering now in my garden, it grows very slowly and is only 10 cm in height. Anyone knows which species this might be?

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: Maggi Young on July 04, 2010, 03:07:15 PM

Hi Wim, your wee azalea is perhaps a R. kiusianum or  maybe one of the hybrid Kurume types (R. obtusum and R. kiusianum) though they tend to be larger.

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: WimB on July 04, 2010, 04:46:59 PM

Thanks again, Maggi. Now I remember buying R. kiusianum.

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: Maggi Young on July 04, 2010, 05:01:00 PM

I see in another thread John W is suggesting R. nakaharai as a possibility, too... yes, it could well be that! Especially since yours is so short.

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: WimB on July 04, 2010, 05:08:16 PM

Yes, I bought both of them so I'll have a look which one it could be.

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: Lesley Cox on July 04, 2010, 11:47:19 PM

I was thinking along the lines of R. hakaharai too. The flower shape is a little different from kiusianum. :) It's for little plants like this that we badly miss the late Jim Lecomte. He introduced many such, but where are they now? Certainly not in any nursery I know of and I can't think of a single garden where I've seen this one lately. :'(

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: johnw on July 05, 2010, 11:23:29 PM

Wim - This may help. Here is a North Tisbury nakaharai hybrid called 'Late Love' in flower here now. It's about a week to ten days earlier than normal, the colour is a bit more reddish than shown.  It stands only 30cm high x 1 meter wide after 25 years.  Also the foliage of another NT hybrid called 'Michael Hill'; it flowered 2 weeks early and is completely prostrate.  The latter's foliage is typical of nakaharai.

A few of my own nakaharai hybrids are still to flower and nakaharai itself will be the last.

johnw

Title: Re: Rhododendron sp.
Post by: WimB on July 06, 2010, 05:59:46 PM

Thanks everyone, it is a nakaharai hybrid.