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Rhododendron simsii Planch.
Synonym
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Rhododendron simsii var. simsii
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Family
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Ericaceae
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Flowering and fruiting period
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September-January
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Distribution
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Native of East Asia
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Distribution in kerala
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Idukki
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Ornamental
purposes
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Shrubs, branches many and fine, densely shiny brown appressed-setose, setae flat.
Leaf blade ovate, elliptic-ovate or obovate to oblanceolate, base cuneate or broadly cuneate; margin slightly revolute, finely
toothed; apex shortly acuminate. Inflorescence
2-3(-6)-flowered; pedicel densely shiny brown appressed-setose.
Calyx deeply lobed; lobes triangular-long-ovate, coarsely
appressed-hairy, margin ciliate. Corolla broadly funnelform, rose, bright to
dark red, or to rose-pink, with dark red flecks on upper lobes, lobes obovate, 2.5-3 cm. Stamens 10.As long as corolla, filaments
pubescent below.
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