Rhododendron headfortianum Hutch.

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'Rhododendron headfortianum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhododendron/rhododendron-headfortianum/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

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Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
Tibet
Traditional English name for the formerly independent state known to its people as Bod now the Tibet (Xizang) Autonomous Region of the People’s Republic of China. The name Xizang is used in lists of Chinese provinces.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
corolla
The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.
epiphyte
Plant growing on trees but not parasitic on the host.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glaucous
Grey-blue often from superficial layer of wax (bloom).
included
(botanical) Contained within another part or organ.
lanceolate
Lance-shaped; broadest in middle tapering to point.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Rhododendron headfortianum' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/rhododendron/rhododendron-headfortianum/). Accessed 2024-03-18.

An evergreen shrub at present 3 to 4 ft high in cultivation, but probably becoming taller; young shoots loosely scaly. Leaves narrowly oblong or oblong-lanceolate, 212 to 5 in. long, less than half as wide, apex mucronate, soon glabrous above, glaucous and scaly beneath; stalk 12 to 1 in. long. Flowers solitary. Calyx with five deep oval lobes about 12 in. long; stamens ten, about the length of the corolla-tube, hairy towards the base. Corolla funnel-shaped, 4 in. long, nearly as wide across, the five rounded, spreading lobes, cream-coloured, faintly tinged with pink; at the base are five oblong pouches. Bot. Mag., t. 9614. (s. Maddenii ss. Megacalyx)

This species was described from a plant raised by Lord Headfort from seeds collected ‘blind’ by Kingdon Ward in November 1924 in the Tsangpo Gorge, S.E. Tibet (KW 6310). According to his field note it made a dwarf plant there, 1 to 112 ft high, growing as an epiphyte or on cliffs and boulders, but in cultivation it has grown taller. Dr Hutchinson, in describing R. headfortianum, included in it a specimen without flowers or fruits collected by Kingdon Ward in the Delei valley, Assam, in 1928, under KW 8546. But that number is really R. lindleyi (q.v.).

R. headfortianum appears to be uncommon in cultivation.

From the Supplement (Vol. V)

This is now included in R. taggianum.