Koichiro Wada Rhododendron. Relatively heat and cold tolerant. Plant in moist humus rich free draining acid soil in sun or dappled shade.
Plant in moist humus rich free draining acid soil in sun or dappled shade. Other common names rhododendron koichiro wada. The young shoots have silver hairs.
This is the so called fcc form.
Genus rhododendron can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees with simple leaves sometimes with a dense colourful indumentum of hairs on the lower side and funnel shaped bell shaped or tubular flowers that may be solitary or in short racemes. There is a distinctive white covering tomentum on the top of the leaves. Genus rhododendron can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees with simple leaves sometimes with a dense colourful indumentum of hairs on the lower side and funnel shaped bell shaped or tubular flowers that may be solitary or in short racemes. The flower buds are bright pink which turn pure white on opening.