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Rhododendron
Ericaceae
800 species belong in this group. The international register list over 10,000 named varieties. Also includes Azalea. Most people know rhododendrons as big leathery leafed shrubs with round clusters of white, pink, red, or purple blooms. But there a dwarfs that grow only a inches tall and 80 foot giants in southeast Asia with blooms of near blue, orange, apricot, salmon, yellow, & scarlet.
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