Rhododendron hyperethrum Web Specials

Rhododendron hyperethrum Web SpecialsRhododendron hyperythrum is a distinctive and highly desirable evergreen species prized for its handsome foliage, graceful habit, and elegant late season flowers. Native to the mountainous forests of Taiwan, this refined rhododendron forms a broad, well branched shrub with large, leathery, deep green leaves that provide year round beauty and create a lush, tropical appearance in the landscape. Valued for its extreme hardiness, as it can take

it is the coloring in the leaves

The foliage is also very attractive

sweet fragrance

often 10 inches in diameter have red-purple on the outside while the inside is white with a hint of pink

blue-green needles on branches that layer over each other

but there are many more of them

Useful as a low hedge or in rockeries

this new hybrid by Singing Tree Gardens Nursery has full trusses of white edged in purple with red spotting the the upper lobe

This large growing native azalea has lovely ball-shaped trusses of orange/pink flowers

Bred for bonsai

peeling bark

This one is a favorite of Gunther Eshcrich of Recklinghausen