Rhododendrons

Winter Sun

Rhododendron 'Winter Sun'
'My Lady' x (burmanicum x chrysodoron)
Shrub: 0.71 x 0.61m in 4 years
Flowers: up to 9, flat truss, open funnel-shaped, 64 x 76mm, with 5 wavy-edged lobes, pale yellow with pale greenish-yellow throat and pale purplish-pink tips to the lobes; outside pale purplish-pink stripes.
Late December - early February
Foliage: elliptic, up to 114 x 38mm, concave with wavy margins; upper surface moderate olive green, glossy, hairless; lower surface moderate yellow-green, scaly.

Photo: Russell Beeson