Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Australian Rhododendron Society was established in Victoria in 1960, and in that same year it approached the government seeking the allocation of land for a rhododendron garden. [6] A site in the Dandenong Ranges was chosen because it receives between two and three times the annual rainfall of Melbourne, and is on average five degrees cooler.
Rhododendron lochiae is a species of plant in the family Ericaceae, and is one of only two species of the genus Rhododendron that are native to Australia. It is found only in restricted areas of mountain–top cloud forest habitats within the Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site.
Rhododendron (/ ˌ r oʊ d ə ˈ d ɛ n d r ən /; pl.: rhododendra) is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants and in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America ...
This List of Rhododendron species includes species of the genus Rhododendron, which is in the plant family Ericaceae. Depending on the source, there are anywhere from 800 to over 1,100 wild species. Depending on the source, there are anywhere from 800 to over 1,100 wild species.
Rhododendron section Vireya (vireyas) is a tropical group of Rhododendron species, numbering about 300 in all. [1] The group may also be treated as Rhododendron subgenus Vireya . [ 2 ] Vireyas are native to southeastern Asia and range from Thailand to Australia .
Melastoma malabathricum, known also as Malabar melastome, Indian rhododendron, Singapore rhododendron, planter's rhododendron and senduduk, is a flowering plant in the family Melastomataceae native to Seychelles, tropical and subtropical Asia to Australia and western Pacific islands. [2]
Epacris pulchella, an ericoid mycorrhizal epacrid from eastern Australia. Western Azalea, Rhododendron occidentale, a western North American ericoid mycorrhizal species. The ericoid mycorrhiza is a mutualistic relationship formed between members of the plant family Ericaceae and several lineages of mycorrhizal fungi.
Rhododendron ferrugineum may grow up to 1.5 m (4.9 ft) tall and produces clusters of pinkish-red, bell-shaped flowers throughout the summer. The undersides of the leaves are covered in rust-brown spots, which give the species the second part of its binomial name (ferrugineum, Latin for 'rust-coloured, ferruginous').