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HERB. HORT. BOT. REG. EDIN.
FLORA OF MASSACHUSETTS
Rhododendron maximm L
Medfield, Rocky Wood Reservation.
Shady mixed deciduous and evergreen wood on rocky area in swamp.
Shrub to 3m high. Y oung shoots rose coloured, sticky. Leaves dark
green above, pale brownish~yellow to silvery beneath (infested with
lacewing), when young indumentum above, and especially below, white
and sticky. Flowers white passing to rose at the margins of the
ROYAL eee aancen corolla lobes, posterior lobe at bagiz with green speckling on pale
greenish~yellow background colour; filaments bent upwards to give
| | | slightly incurved antlers. Style curved upwards especially near the
sti Inflorescence pedicels stic! 7
E00712069 cia e nts 3598
Coll. P.S. BAER, HORT, BOT. REG. “EBT '® |
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