Purple Rhododendron. Native to or naturalized in oregon. Leaves dark green and reticulate above oblong elliptic to about 15 cm long 5 6 5 cm wide acute or obtuse at the apex.
Assortment of purple lilac blue flowering rhododendrons 100 pure blue does not exist in the rhodoworld. Rhododendron purple passion has masses of deep purple flowers with a pink white centre from late spring to early summer. Aug 9 2020 rhododendron species and varieties with purple flowers.
The leaves are dark green and glossy.
The blooms of this shrub are a light purple with hints of red. Thrives in cooler. 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. Yet there are rhodo hybrids which come quite near to it especcially the group lepidote small leaved hybrids in the list right below.