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| Unknown hybrid Rhododendron: not too bad a pic, but slightly 'flat'. |
Having been shamed into exchanging my old 'brick' for a smartphone recently, and (remarkably) had it in my pocket this morning when I was in Ray Wood. Having no other camera with me I thought it would be worth trying the phone's camera to capture a record of the tremendous display currently to be seen there. These are a few of the results, with annotations. Clearly the phone camera is not totally useless, in a pinch, but I hope I don't have to use it too often.
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| A very flattened view of quite a pleasing combination. Many of these pics remind me of an early colour copy of National Geographic. |
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| Rhododendron augustinii 'Electra': the camera has failed to catch the beautiful blue of this amazing clone, and most detail of the flowers is gone too. |
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| The strangely dulled effect is clearly seen here, although the azalea doesn't fare too badly. It's labelled 'Tsuta-Momiji', but doesn't fit the description of that in the Rhododendron Register. |
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| Well-focused, and the flower colour is OK, but again 'flat'. Rhododendron amesiae, considered to be Critically Endangered in the wild by the IUCN. |
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| Rhododendron petrocharis |
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| Expanding foliage of R. kesangiae: an acceptable image. |
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| And a good shot of Shortia soldanelloides, an astonishing long-term survivor. |
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re: the absolutely sensational unknown rhodo leading off this posting. My first thought was a souliei hybrid. I relayed the photo to Alleyne Cook in Vancouver who could very well have planted it and he was awestruck but didn't recall it. Harold Greer said "‘Soulbut Group’ (R. souliei x R. fortunei ‘Mrs. Charles Butler’) or the ‘Souldis Group’ (R. souliei x R. fortunei ssp. discolor). Both were hybrids that were around then." Ken Cox said : "Looks like a campylocarpa fortunea mix like most of this shade.".
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