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Rhododendron recurvoides Tagg & Kingdon-Ward

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Genus

Other taxa in genus

Glossary

glandular
Bearing glands.
setose
Bristly.

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Rhododendron recurvoides

Rhododendron recurvoides foliage, the leaf undersides with dense cinnamon tomentum. Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, 28 March 2012. Image John Anderson.

Generally a dwarf shrub, 1–1.5 m; young shoots glandular-setose; bud scales persistent. Leaves coriaceous, 3–7 × 1–2 cm, lanceolate to oblanceolate, apex blunt, margins strongly inrolled, lower surface with a dense cinnamon tomentum composed of ramiform hairs. Flowers 4–7 to a truss; calyx 8–10 mm; corolla white flushed pink to rose, lacking a basal blotch though with crimson spots, campanulate, nectar pouches absent, c.30 mm; ovary densely glandular-setose. Flowering April-May. Royal Horticultural Society (1997)

Distribution  Myanmar NE

Habitat 3,350 m

RHS Hardiness Rating H6

Awards AM 1941 (Col E.H.W. Bolitho, Trengwainton, Cornwall); flowers pale Rose Bengal, flushed with deeper shades.

Conservation status Vulnerable (VU)

R. recurvoides superficially resembles R. roxieanum in Subsect. Taliensia, but the glandular-setose young shoots indicate a closer affinity with species in Subsect. Glischra. Royal Horticultural Society (1997)

Rhododendron recurvoides

Flowers on a plant labelled Rhododendron recurvoides from Kingdon-Ward 7184 growing on the rock garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Photographed mid-March 2020. Image Tom Christian.

Rhododendron recurvoides

Rhododendron recurvoides from Kingdon-Ward 7184 growing on the rock garden at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. Photographed mid-March 2020. Image Tom Christian.

Rhododendron recurvoides

Rhododendron recurvoides. Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, 28 March 2012. Image John Anderson.

Rhododendron recurvoides

Maturing growth of Rhododendron recurvoides (University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, Vancouver, June 2023). Image John Grimshaw.

Rhododendron recurvoides

Foliage of Rhododendron recurvoides (University of British Columbia Botanical Garden, Vancouver, June 2023). Image John Grimshaw.

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