General Description | A slow-growing evergreen shrub with thick, fleshy, green leaves and bell-shaped pink flowers. |
Shape | Bushy. |
Landscape | Hedging, screens, container. |
Propagation | Propagate by semi-ripe cuttings, layering, or grafting. |
Cultivation | Grow in moist but well-drained, leafy, humus-rich acid soil in part shade. |
Pests | Susceptible to aphids, vine weevil, azalea(Rhododendron) whitefly, rhododendron leafhopper, pieris lacebug, scale insects, caterpillars, powdery mildews, rhododendron petal blight, rhododendron bud blast, silver leaf and honey fungus. |
Notable Specimens | Trengwainton garden, Madron, Cornwall, United Kingdom. |
Habitat | Lightly wooded and open meadow areas at lower elevations. |