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Rhododendron is a highly ornamental, but also has high economic and ecological value of woody plants. One of the top ten famous flowers in China, known as "flowers in the West". The Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi once praised the azalea in "Mountain Pomegranate, Sending Yuanjiu": "This thing in the flower is like a Western Shi, and the hibiscus peony medicine is a mother-in-law." ”
Rhododendron, also known as Yingshan red, is also called mountain pomegranate. Its body shape is different, the shape of the tree is changeable, almost the whole plant is a flower when it blooms, if it is in the mountains, it is covered with red. From a distance, it looks like a cluster of flames that burn and jump freely; it looks like a piece of red light that looks particularly dazzling under the green background.
Rhododendron flowers are rich and colorful, whether it is garden landscaping, garden flower landscape, or potted plants are very popular, once listed as "the world's three major horticultural plants", "China's three natural flowers" and "Yunnan eight famous flowers".
There are many varieties of rhododendrons, about 900 in the whole world, and China accounts for more than half of the total species. Nowadays, people are still constantly cross-breeding and breeding new varieties, and now the world's horticultural rhododendron varieties are close to tens of thousands. Today I will introduce you to the ten most beautiful azaleas:
1. Spring cuckoo
The spring cuckoo is a small shrub in the rhododendron family, both evergreen and deciduous. Spring cuckoos are found throughout the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere. The spring azaleas are very beautiful. Tubular flowers come in a variety of colors, including crimson, reddish, rose, purple, and white.
2. Summer Crane
It is a family of summer cuckoos that are native to India and Japan. In the spring, the leaves are first and then flower, and the flowering period is generally from late May to June. The branches and leaves of the summer crane are slender, the canopy is plump and neat, the leaves are tightly arranged, the indefinite germination is strong, the shape is strongly malleable, the flower diameter is 6 to 8cm, and the flower color and petals are as colorful as the western crane.
3. Alpine rhododendron
Small evergreen shrubs, up to 1 meter tall, densely branched, lying on the ground or straight. The leaves are scattered at the top of the branches, leathery, light gray to dark gray-green on the top, pale yellowish brown to reddish brown below, and the petioles are scaled. The inflorescence is apical, umbel-shaped, with several flowers; the flower bud scales are shed; the calyx is small, red or purple, the corolla is wide funnel-shaped, the lilac rose is purple to purple, rarely white, the filament base is covered with wool; the capsule is oblong and ovate, flowering in May-July and fruiting in September-October.
4. Monkey-faced cuckoo
Monkey head rhododendron is an evergreen shrub, rhododendron family, monkey head rhododendron flowers are large and dense, before flowering, the flower buds are gathered together with each other, and densely covered with brown hair, quite similar to the monkey's head, hence the name. He is about 2-5 meters tall and 10-13 meters long; The bark of the young branches is smooth and pale brown, and the bark of the old branches is layered and peeling, pale gray or off-white. It is produced in southern Zhejiang, southern Jiangxi, Fujian, southern Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi. It grows at altitudes of 500–2000 m in hillside forests. The main variety of sanqingshan four-season famous flowers in Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, is revered as the city flower of Shangrao City.
5. Western cuckoo
The Western cuckoo is bred in the Netherlands and Belgium by using anti-complex cross-fertilization such as the Gao Yue cuckoo, yingshan red and hairy white cuckoo. It is the most beautiful type of rhododendron. It is also one of the main species of potted flower production in the world. In European and American florists, supermarkets and homes, Western azaleas can be found everywhere, and cultivation is very common.
6. Rhododendron yellow-flowered
Rhododendron yellow flowers, etc., are produced at an altitude of 1000 meters, the height of the plant is between 0.5 meters and 2 meters, the branches are relatively evacuated, and its flowering period is from March to May, and the fruit period is from July to August. The golden yellow flowers are very dazzling and beautiful, in addition to having a high ornamentality, their economic value is also quite high.
7. Cloud brocade cuckoo
Rhododendron belongs to the rhododendron family, its vigorous branches resemble pines, and its flowers are larger than peonies. In the records of the "Illustrated Catalogue of Higher Plants of China", it belongs to the best of the rhododendrons and is a precious tree species unique to China. In the early Qing Dynasty, Zhang Lianyuan lamented that the Yunjin rhododendron, alias red heel, was not included in the royal garden, and once wrote a poem: "Cui Xiu calmly comes out, and the famous flowers are the first." The most pitiful red hesitation, high reflection of the bi hibiscus. Qi trees should be of the same species, And Taoyuan xu and ling. No one moved to the upper garden, and the white cloud seal was vacant.
9. Blue-purple cuckoo
The purple-blue cuckoo is a small evergreen shrub, sometimes mat-shaped or semi-creeping, 0.3-1.5 meters high. The young branches are densely covered with pale brown stalked scales; the leaf bud scales fall early. The leaves are leathery, oblong oval or oblong, ovate, 1.6–4 (-6.5) cm long and 0.6–1.7 cm wide, round or blunt at the apex, with short spikes, wedge-shaped at the base, sometimes extending downwards to the petiole, with edges nearly light wavy, gray-green or dark green above, scales mixed with pale and dark brown, adjacent or overlapping, underneath by bisped scales, with variable scales, yellow or dark brown, yellowish brown or rust, off-white or dark yellowish brown
10. "Green Radiance" Green Cuckoo
Green rhododendron is a rare rhododendron called "Green Radiance" introduced abroad. Green rhododendron, a rare, variant of rhododendron, blooms green flowers, compared with other flower colors, giving people a fresh, natural, tranquil but not losing the vitality of life.
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