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This characteristic makes it easy to identify the species. The flowers have white tubes. This azalea is sometimes also called the smooth azalea for its new leaf growth has no hair, making it smooth to the touch. The leaves range from a blue-green, dark green, or a medium green, and the underside is a light white color. The leaves are usually ...
Azalea leafy gall can be particularly destructive to azalea leaves during the early spring. Hand picking infected leaves is the recommended method of control. [4] They can also be subject to Phytophthora root rot in moist, hot conditions. [5] Azaleas share the economically important disease Phytophthora cinnamomi with more than 3000 other plants.
Ovulinia petal blight is commonly referred to as Ovulinia flower blight, Azalea flower blight, and Azalea flower spot. [1] First reported in the 1930s on the Belgian-Indica hybrids, petal blight can attack most azaleas under favorable weather conditions. Infected flowers first exhibit small spots, about 1 mm in diameter, which appear water ...
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Tsutsusi comes from the Japanese word for Azalea, Tsutsuji ( つつじ or ツツジ). When Don (1834) described the subdivisions of Rhododendron he named one of his eight sections, Tsutsutsi (sic), which he explained was the Chinese name of the first species described (R. indicum, originally Azalea indica L.). [8]
Sometimes it helps to give the plant's pot a quarter-turn every week or so to straighten out its growth, but the better option is to increase light exposure. 5. Losing Variegation or Fenestration
The many well known and economically important members of the Ericaceae include the cranberry, blueberry, huckleberry, rhododendron (including azaleas), and various common heaths and heathers (Erica, Cassiope, Daboecia, and Calluna for example). [4]