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Pacific rhododendron
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© Greg Rabourn
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young plant with single bloom
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Rhododendron macrophyllum
Evergreen Shrub
Height: 25 ft.
Availability: Medium
Growing ease: Medium
Moisture req.: dry - moist
Exposure req.: part shade - shade
Plant description:
It grows 15-20' on average. The leaves are 6 inches long and are rather flat, evergreen and smooth on the underside. The flowers can be rather large clusters of rosy pink and rarely white. It can be used as a thicket or wide, evergreen hedgerow. It blooms best on forest edges but is known to bloom in dark forest as well. Most garden rhododendron are species from Asia.
Keywords: birds, broad, broad leaf (evergreen), butterflies, fire-resistant , pink, upright, white