This plant family is also typical of peat bogs and blanket bogs ; examples include Rhododendron groenlandicum and Kalmia polifolia.

Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.

Rhododendron ( from Ancient Greek ῥόδον " rose " and δένδρον " tree ") is a genus of over 1000 species of woody plants in the heath family, either evergreen or deciduous.

Rhododendron is a genus characterized by shrubs and small to ( rarely ) large trees, the smallest species growing to tall, and the largest, R. giganteum, reported to over tall.

Rhododendron arboreum ( lali guransh ) is the national flower of Nepal.

Rhododendron niveum is the state tree of Sikkim in India.

Rhododendron is also the state tree of the state of Uttarakhand, India.

Rhododendron catawbiense, the most widespread rhododendron of the Appalachian Mountains, is the state flower of West Virginia, and is in the Flag of West Virginia.

Rhododendron macrophyllum, a widespread rhododendron of the Pacific Northwest, is the state flower of Washington.

Rhododendron ' President Roosevelt ' is a popular cultivar of Rhododendron with striking variegated leaves and trusses of bright red flowers that fade to white in the centre.

The flowers of some rhododendrons can appear similar to those of some hydrangeas, but Rhododendron ( including azalea ) is in a different order.

Much of the area is however becoming invaded by the alien plant, Rhododendron ponticum which provides a covering of pink blossom in May and June, but which is slowly blanketing out the native flora.

* The Homestead Outdoor Program Center is located on the historically significant Creighton Homestead in Rhododendron at the base of Mount Hood.

Fitzwilliam is home to Rhododendron State Park, a grove of native rhododendrons that bloom in mid-July.

The Roan Mountain Rhododendron Festival is held each summer at the lower elevation of Roan Mountain State Park, offering visitors opportunities to sample traditional foods, purchase locally handmade crafts, and listen to a variety of traditional Southern Appalachian musicians, as well as to view the alpine catawba rhododendron gardens whose blooming season usually peaks during the third or fourth weekend in June.

The first element is probably the name of the plant pors or finnmarkspors ( Rhododendron tomentosum ).

Rhododendron is an unincorporated community in Clackamas County, Oregon, United States.

It is located within the Mount Hood Corridor, between Rhododendron and Welches on U. S. Route 26.

The valley basin has a rich ecotone diversity and includes nineteen different types of forests, most prominently Rhododendron, and also Himalayan blue pine, which is flanked by Ganesh Himal and the Sringi ranges.

" This extract from the Rural Rides show that the countryside has not changed much in the last 180 years ( apart from our definitions of villainous and beautiful and the invasion of that indestructible weed, Rhododendron ponticum, which is rapidly taking over the woods ).

The reserve is dedicated to the preservation of the western azalea ( Rhododendron occidentale ), whose pink and white flowers bloom in profusion each April and May.

* Subgenus Rhododendron L .: small leaf or lepidotes ( with scales on the underside of their leaves ); several hundred species, type: Rhododendron ferrugineum.

* Historical Survey of Rhododendron Collecting-With Emphasis on its Close Associations with Horticulture

In Rhododendron, a genus with many broadleaf evergreens, several species grow in mature forests but are usually found on highly acidic soil where the nutrients are less available to plants.

In California and parts of Oregon, it is also associated with hardwoods, including Tanoak, Madrone, Rhododendron, Salal, and Manzanita.

It is speculated that the seed was spread with Rhododendron stock.

The flowers are white, pink or purple, in corymbs of 10-50, reminiscent of Rhododendron flowers but flatter, with a star-like calyx of five conjoined petals ; each flower is 1 – 3 cm diameter.

The other major habitat type in the ecoregion is the shola-grassland complex, found at elevations of 1, 900 to 2, 220 m. Shola is a stunted forest, with an upper story of small trees, generally Pygeum gardneri, Schefflera racemosa, Linociera ramiflora, Syzygium spp., Rhododendron nilgiricum, Mahonia nepalensis, Elaeocarpus recurvatus, Ilex denticulata, Michelia nilagirica, Actinodaphne bourdellonii, and Litsea wightiana.

), with rhododendron ( Rhododendron fastigiatum ) abundant in the understory.

Some common forest types in this region include Castanopsis tribuloides mixed with Schima wallichi, Rhododendron spp., Lyonia ovalifolia, Eurya acuminata, and Quercus glauca ; Castanopsis-Laurales forest with Symplocas spp.

Semicarpus anacardium, Rhododendron arboreum and Lyoma ovalifolia ; Schima-Lagestromea parviflora forest, Quercus lamellosa forest with Quercus lenata and ' Quercus glauca ; Castanopsis forests with Castanopsis hystrix and Lauraceae.

Associations of Lauraceous species are common in broadleaved forests ; for example, Litsea spp., Litsea cupola, Persea odoratissima, Persea duthiei, etc., along with such others as Engelhardtia spicata, Rhododendron arboreum, Lyonia ovalifolia, Pyrus pashia, Rhus spp., Acer oblongum, Myrica esculenta, Michelia kisopa, and Betula alnoides.

The common forest types of this zone include Rhododendron arboreum, Rhododendron barbatum, Lyonia spp., Pieris formosa ; Tsuga dumosa forest with such deciduous species as Acer and Magnolia ; deciduous mixed broadleaved forest of Acer campbellii, Acer pectinatum, Sorbus cuspidata, and Magnolia campbellii ; mixed broadleaved forest of Rhododendron arboreum, Acer campbellii, Symplocos ramosissima and Lauraceae.

Rhododendron and mountain laurel thickets interspersed with sourgum, dogwood and large oaks, hickories, hemlocks and maples shade the trail.

* Hutberg ( 294 m )-mountain with park, with Rhododendron

The Caucasian Grouse is a sedentary species, breeding in the Caucasus and Pontic Mountains of northeast Turkey on open slopes with low Rhododendron or other scrubs but in proximity to deciduous broad-leaf forest.

* The Helen S. Layer Rhododendron Garden contains heaths and vernal witch-hazels in March, through to the fall heathers and native witch-hazels in October and November, with over 1, 200 rhododendron plants and over 100 mountain laurel plants.

Rhododendron species are used as food plants by the larvae of some members of the order Lepidoptera ( butterflies and moths ) ( See List of Lepidoptera that feed on rhododendrons ).

The disease is capable of killing some hosts, such as Rhododendron, but most survive.

Henry Compton was ordained Bishop of London in 1675 ; he imported several new plant species to the gardens at Fulham Palace and first cultivated some flora found in Britain today, including the American magnolia, M. virginiana, Liriodendron, Liquidambar and the first American azalea grown in England, Rhododendron viscosum.

Lape's propagation gave rise to a number of widely known cultivars including Rhododendron x ' Esperance ', Syringa vulgaris ' Schoharie ' ( lilac ), Chaenomeles speciosa ' George Landis ' ( quince ), and some unnamed cultivars of Malus pumila var.

Because some of the species names used in Ledum could not be used in Rhododendron ( the names already having been used for other species already in this large genus ), new names had to be coined for them.