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| Botanical Name: |
Rhododendron hybrids
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| Sounds like: |
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| Common Name: |
Azalea
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| Family Name: |
ERICACEAE
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| Genus: |
Rhododendron
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hybrids
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| Name Derivation |
G: Gk. rhodon - rose, dendron - tree
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| Growth Habit: |
Shrub
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| Dimensions: |
Depends on cultivar, spreading as wide as height
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| Flower: |
Broad funnel-form flowers, usually solitary, axillary, but some in umbels. Single, double and hose-in-hose mainly spring, some cvs in late autumn - summer.
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| Climate: |
Prefers an acidic soil, well-drained essential and a loamy to heavier soil. Tolerates light frost, full sun or shade. Susceptible to lace bug and two spotted mite
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| Fruit: |
Mainly sterile.
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| Propagation: |
Cuttings and layering
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| Horticulture Use: |
Shrub for mass planting in sunny or shaded areas. Good pot or container plant, specimen shrub or tree (rhododendrons)
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| Culture & Maintenance: |
Very shallow rooting so avoid cultivation, apply plenty of mulch to keep the roots cool and moist. Avoid soil build up around basal stem which causes collar rot. Use trickle watering as overhead increases fungal problems.
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| Foliage: |
Simple, alternate to whorled at tips, size depends on cv, dk green, hairy.
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