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Genus

Other taxa in genus

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Vulnerable
IUCN Red List conservation category: ‘facing a high risk of extinction in the wild’.

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Rhododendron pudorosum

Rhododendron pudorosum foliage, on a plant raised from L&S 2752. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. May 2008. Image John Anderson.

Tree, 6–15 m; bark rough; bud scales persistent on the apical shoots. Leaves 14–20 × 5–7 cm, oblanceolate, apex more or less acute, apiculate, lower surface with a thin whitish compacted and agglutinated indumentum; petioles terete. Flowers 15–25, in a dense truss, 6–8-lobed, rose pink, with a darker blotch, ventricose-campanulate, nectar pouches absent, 30–35 mm; stamens 12–16; ovary whitish-tomentose. Flowering March-April. Royal Horticultural Society (1997).

Distribution  China S Tibet

Habitat 3,600–3,800 m

RHS Hardiness Rating H5

Conservation status Vulnerable (VU)

This is a rare species in cultivation; it is vulnerable to late frosts. Royal Horticultural Society (1997)

Rhododendron pudorosum

Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906 (Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, Washington, late June 2023). Image John Grimshaw.

Rhododendron pudorosum

Foliage on Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906, taken from a plant at Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium (9 October 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe – Arboretum Wespelaar.

Rhododendron pudorosum

Leaves on Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906, with the lamina oblong (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 9 October 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe – Arboretum Wespelaar.

Rhododendron pudorosum

Bud with caudate scales and thinely tomentose branchlet on Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906 (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 9 October 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe – Arboretum Wespelaar.

Rhododendron pudorosum

Thin and silvery indumentum on the lamina lower surface of Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906 (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 9 October 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe – Arboretum Wespelaar.

Rhododendron pudorosum

Dull green lamina upper surface on Rhododendron pudorosum CER 9906 (Arboretum Wespelaar, Belgium – 9 October 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe – Arboretum Wespelaar.

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