Rhododendron kanehirae
Rhododendron kanehirae
R. kanehirae. Foto: Richard Baines
R. kanehirae. Foto: Richard Baines
R. kanehirae. Foto: Richard Baines
R. kanehirae. Foto: Ukendt
R. kanehirae, sharnoffphotos
R. kanehirae (Tsutsusi). Rhododendron kanehirae originally from the upper reaches of the Peishi River,
Taiwan but now extinct due to excessive flooding.
In recent years there was only two plants of it left on the entire planet both at Logan!
Thankfully now we have managed to distribute material to other gardens.
Richard Baines
Flora of China:
Shrubs, deciduous, 1–3 m tall; young shoots with dense coarse brown flat appressed hairs. Summer and winter leaves different.
Petiole 1–3 mm, densely coarsely castaneous strigose; leaf blade leathery, linear-lanceolate or linear-oblanceolate to
obovate, 1.5–4.8 × 0.2–1.5 cm; margin coarsely strigose, entire, or with obsolete round teeth; apex obtuse to acute; both
surfaces sparsely coarsely shiny brown slightly revolute strigose. Inflorescence 1–3-flowered. Pedicel 0.1–0.3 cm, erect,
densely coarsely castaneous strigose, hairs flat; calyx lobes ovate to elliptic, 2–4 mm, coarsely shiny-castaneous strigose;
corolla narrowly funnelform, crimson to dark red, 3.5–4 cm, tube tapering toward the base, 18–20 mm; lobes ovate or long-ovate;
stamens 10, unequal, shorter than corolla; filaments linear, puberulent below; ovary ovoid, ca. 3 mm, densely coarsely
castaneous setose-strigose; style longer than stamens, slightly exserted, sparsely coarsely strigose at base. Capsule
long-cylindric, 6–8 mm, coarsely setose-strigose. Fl. Apr.
Mountain forests. N Taiwan.
RBGE Herbarium; R. kanehirae (data?)