Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Rhododendron vaseyi, the pinkshell azalea, [4] is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae.It is endemic to the Appalachian highlands of North Carolina.The specific epithet vaseyi honors the American plant collector George Richard Vasey and his father Dr. George Vasey, Chief Botanist at the United States Department of Agriculture from 1872 to 1893.
Now, without the eight Columbus Homes high rises in-between, Mies’ vision has become ever more pronounced in these three 22-story rental buildings. Upper-level floors command views of Downtown Newark and the Manhattan skyline. A rectilinear prism, the Colonnade Apartments measures 446 feet by 66 feet and contains 560 apartments.
Hymenanthes, with approximately 225 species, and subgenus Rhododendron, with approx. 400 species, comprise what gardeners typically describe as "Rhododendrons." Two subgenera are generally known to gardeners as "Azaleas", and include many fewer true species: Pentanthera , which comprises the deciduous azaleas, and Tsutsusi , which includes ...
Juncus vaseyi was named and described by the German-American botanist George Engelmann in 1866. [2] The type specimen was collected a "few years" earlier by Dr. George Vasey along the Fox River near Ringwood, Illinois. [4] Since Vasey had "paid a good deal of attention to this genus", Engelmann named the species in his honor.
The following is a list of rhododendron cultivars and species which have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.They are mostly hardy evergreen shrubs with abundant, brilliantly-coloured, trumpet-shaped flowers, often in large spherical trusses.
Rhododendron keiskei is a species of flowering plant in the heath family Ericaceae, native to Honshu, Kyushu and Shikoku in Japan.. It is a low-growing, spreading evergreen shrub, reaching only 60 cm (24 in) tall by 1.85 m (6.1 ft) broad when mature.
Rhododendron arborescens, also known as smooth azalea [1] or sweet azalea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to the eastern seaboard of the United States. It grows to a height of 2.4–3 metres (8–10 ft). Generally blooming in late spring and early summer, the flowers range in color from white to pink with red ...
The Harvey Butler Memorial Rhododendron Sanctuary 30 acres (121,000 m 2) is a nature reserve located on Route 11A, Springvale, Maine, United States. The sanctuary is open to the public, and is owned by the New England Wild Flower Society , [ 1 ] which also maintains the Garden in the Woods .