Rhododendron Schneekrone. Height 80 100cm in 10 years. Beautiful white flowers tinged soft pink and spotted ruby red in a ball shaped truss.
Now available on the inkarho rootstock. This patented rootstock was developed from a rhododendron growing in a german lime quarry and has been the subject of an extensive 20 year breeding and testing programme. A tough plant with white flowers tinged soft pink and spotted ruby red in a ball shaped truss of 12 to 17 flowers each approximately 50mm.
Flowering in may this is one of the best white yakushimanum hybrids for cold climates.
Flower broadly funnel shaped about 3 across yellowish white slightly flushed very pale purple outside touched very pale purple along veins dorsal lobe marked deep to strong yellowish green to strong yellow. The foliage is dark green and flat. Flower broadly funnel shaped about 3 across yellowish white slightly flushed very pale purple outside touched very pale purple along veins dorsal lobe marked deep to strong yellowish green to strong yellow. 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.