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Peter - A nice find in an unlikely place. A shot in the dark - prostratum or calostrotum Keleticum Group Rock #58, probably the later as I recall prostratum are downward pointing branchlets.. These species in the Saluenensia are devils to get right. The taxonomists have scared off gardeners from wading into the i.d. quagmire. Maggi - do wade in, I'm up to my neck........ johnw
Crikey, John, I'm an amateur It's a little cracker, Peter - but I'm not sure quite where I'd place it - it's a better form than many of the Keleticum types around here, that's for sure. Looking again at Peter's pictures - and what good, 'full' flowers they are - I don't think I see any hairs on the calyx or flower so prostratum is a good enough name for me.
Anyone like to tell me or speculate on what this dwarf Rhododendron is?
Peter your plant looks like R calostrotum 'Gigha', an early flowerer with me.
Rhododendron. Rhododendron Sutchuenense x giraldii, began to flourish 7 March.Thorkild-DK