Description
Rhododendron bureavioides affinity This is a well-known and widely grown clone (AM 1980) that has been in the trade for many years as both rufum (the name under which we received it) and bureavioides (which is what you see it labeled as in most gardens on both the east and west coasts) - but obviously is not either of those species (at least it is obvious now that we have seen both of them in the wild!). Very similar to the obviously closely related species bureavii, bureavioides and rufum but with indumentum on the one-year old stems which means it is not rufum. Other characteristics point to probable hybrid origin including its very successful cultivation on the east coast. Very nice flowers of white flushed pink flowers with spots in mid-spring. (-10\R1\4) RSBG#1980/037