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Rhododendron
Rhododendron (; pl.: rhododendra), from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon), meaning "rose", and δένδρον (déndron), meaning "tree", is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants 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, Europe and Australia.
Various species of Rhododendron are the national flower of Nepal, the state flower of Washington and West Virginia in the United States, the state flower of Nagaland and Himachal Pradesh in India, the provincial flower of Jeju Province in South Korea and Jiangxi in China, and the state tree of Sikkim and Uttarakhand in India. Most species have brightly coloured flowers which bloom from late winter through to early summer.
29 branches of this group, most-observed first
Labrador teas
subsectionLedum
Rhododendron
subsectionRhododendron
Rhodorastrum
subsectionRhodorastrum
Subsection Lapponica
subsectionLapponica
Caroliniana
subsectionCaroliniana
Maddenia
subsectionMaddenia
Triflora
subsectionTriflora
Lepidota
subsectionLepidota
Micrantha
subsectionMicrantha
Cinnabarina
subsectionCinnabarina
Scabrifolium
subsectionScabrifolium
Moupinensia
subsectionMoupinensia
Edgworthia
subsectionEdgworthia
Virgatum
subsectionVirgatum
Heliolepida
subsectionHeliolepida
Saluenensia
subsectionSaluenensia
Tephropeplae
subsectionTephropeplae
Glauca
subsectionGlauca
Boothia
subsectionBoothia
Camelliiflora
subsectionCamelliiflora
Trichocladum
subsectionTrichocladum
Campylogyna
subsectionCampylogyna
Uniflora
subsectionUniflora
Baileya
subsectionBaileya
Fragariflora
subsectionFragariflora
Monantha
subsectionMonantha
Genestieriana
subsectionGenestieriana
Afghanica
subsectionAfghanica
Greenland rhododendron
hybridRhododendron × vanhoeffenii
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.407
Christoph Jakob Trew — Uitgezochte planten (1771)
Christoph Jakob Trew · 1771 · p.220
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.366
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.860
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.79
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.107
Collected Illustrations of the Three Realms: Herbs
王圻, 王思義 · 1607 · p.46
The Natural History of Carolina Florida and Bahama Islands Vol. 2
Mark Catesby · 1743 · p.358
Mark Catesby — Piscium, serpentum, insectorum (pt. 2) (1777)
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.111
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 33)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.39
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 922780.