Rhododendron triflorum triflorum

Description

Three-Flowered Rhododendron is an evergreen or semi-deciduous shrub 1-5 m tall,with cinnamon colored flaking bark.Branchlets are minutely scaly.Leaves are ovate to lanceshaped,3.5-6.5 x 1.5-3 cm,pointed,base rounded,green and hairless above,pale green or whitish beneath with minute scales.Leaf-stalks are 5-12 mm.Flowers are borne in 2-3-flowered.Flower-stalks are 7-12 mm,scaly.Calyx is minute,obscurely 5-lobed,scaly.Flowers are strongly bilaterally symmetric,open funnel-shaped,2-3 cm,pale yellow green spotted,sometimes with reddish blotches inside.Stamens are 10,filaments velvety towards base,oary scaly.Capsules are narrowly cylindric,about 1.3 cm.Three-Flowered Rhododendron is found in the Himalayas,from E Nepal to SE Tibet,at altitudes of 2400-3300 m.Flowering: April-May.