Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Rhododendron glandulosum (Standl. ex Small) Millais |
Bibliography | Rhododendrons: 173 (1917) |
Native Range | Kamtschatka to Japan, Alaska |
Primary Biome | Subalpine or Subarctic |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 0-1500m |
Description | leaves elliptic to obovate, 1-4cm, thin, glandular-ciliate, flat, rounded to acute, mucronate, glandular hirsute, flowers 1-3, upper corolla lobes dark variegate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | purple |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
Synonyms | Rhododendron camtschaticum ssp. glandulosum (Standl. ex Small) Hultén Rhododendron camtschaticum var. glandulosum (Standl. ex Small) B.Boivin Rhododendron camtschaticum var. pumilum E.A.Busch Therorhodion camtschaticum var. barbatum Nakai Therorhodion camtschaticum var. pumilum (E.A.Busch) T.Yamaz. Therorhodion glandulosum Standl. ex Smal |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 31 Russian Far East (KAM Kamchatka, SAK Sakhalin) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) 7 Northern America 70 Subarctic America (ASK Alaska) |