Rhododendrons

Rhododendron 'White Perfume'

Hybrid deciduous azalea

Parentage unknown

A Pratt Hybrid. Raised pre-1996 by Denny Pratt

AM 1998

H6

Flowers: Trusses of about 13 funnel-shaped, single flowers, with a long narrow tube. Flowers are 35mm long × 25mm wide, with 5 lobes; predominantly white, with a yellow and pink flush in bud and retaining some of the pink at the base of the tube; dorsal lobe with a brilliant yellow flare; covered externally with long, white, red-tipped glandular hairs; stamens 5, filaments white, anthers pale brown; style white, flushed pink, stigma greenish brown; both stamens and style protruding from the flower and both hairy at the base; ovary densely glandular hairy; calyx with oblong lobes up to 8mm long, green. Pedicels strongly flushed red, glandular, hairy

Late

Strongly scented

Foliage: Leaves are elliptic to obovate, up to 45mm long × 15mm wide; acute at apex, cuneate at base, hairless above, margins ciliate, midrib hairy below; petioles very short. Deciduous

Other Information: Unlikely to be commercially available