R. colemanii [Species]
R. colemanii [Species] Photo © William C. Miller III |
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| Cultivar: | Group: | Color: | Blooms: | Type: | Reg Ref: |
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| R. colemanii | Species | Deciduous | |||
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| Red Hills Azalea | |||||
| R. colemanii, commonly called The Red Hills Azalea, is a multi-stemmed shrub reaching 20 feet in height. Leaves are deciduous, alternate, obovate to oblong in outline, with entire ciliate margins. The leaves are pubescent along the midvein on the upper surface with multicellular hairs. The lower surface is glabrous or pubescent with unicellular and scattered multicellular hairs. The midvein on the lower surface of the leaf is pubescent with appressed multicellular hairs. Flowers are produced in terminal racemes after the leaves are fully expanded. The pedicels of the flowers are densely covered with unicellular and multicellular glandular hairs. Flower color varies widely from white with a yellow blotch on the upper corolla lobe, to uniformly white, pink with yellow blotch, or uniformly pink, to rarely yellow. The outside of the flowers are covered with unicellular and multicellular gland-tipped hairs. The flowers are fragrant with a sweet, musky or lemony odor. The fruit is a cylindrical capsule with prominent raised warty bumps toward the tip, and sparsely to densely covered with unicellular and multicellular eglandular hairs, often with glandular-tipped multicellular hairs at the base. | |||||