Rhododendron from ACE seed - but which rhodo ?

[Maggi Young]

We've got a super rhodo  flowering now. Grown from ACE seed... lost number. Any help with an ID?

http://www.srgc.org.uk/logs/logdir/2012Mar211332339999BULB_LOG__1212.pdf

[Maggi Young]

See more photos of that rhodo here :
http://www.srgc.org.uk/forum/index.php?topic=8819.msg239116#msg239116

Rhood is ID'd as R. uvariifolium

Nice quote from Bulb Log thread :

Maggi will be far too modest to mention this so I will intervene.

When their super rhodo was posted I sent a link off to Steve Hootman, curator of the Rhododendron Species Foundation, to help with an identification just minutes before Jens came to the rescue.  Steve had been away and wrote the following this afternoon:

"That rhododendron is a very fine example (one of the best I have seen) of the Chinese form of uvariifolium (vs. the Tibetan form known as uvariifolium var. griseum)."

Well done Ian and Maggi1


johnw