Tree Rhododendron
రోడోడెండ్రాన్ ఎరుపుകാട്ടുപൂവരശ്লালী গুরাঁস
Rhododendron arboreum Sm.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 12 m
- wide
- 7.6 m
Ericaceae
When it flowers
Flowers all year in the tropics.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Indian Subcontinent to S. Tibet and N. MyanmarKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 12 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: RHS 8–12 m; Wikipedia 12–12 m
- Spread
- 7.2 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: RHS 2.5–4 m; Wikipedia 12–12 m
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from RHS and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -10 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- ཨེ་ཏོ་མེ་ཏོག, लालीगुराँस
- Chinese (China)
- 树形杜鹃
- Chinese
- 樹形杜鹃, 红花杜鹃, 树形杜鹃
- Thai
- คำแดง
- Russian
- Рододендрон древесный
- Danish
- catawbarhododendron
- Polish
- różanecznik drzewiasty
- Finnish
- puualppiruusu
- French
- Rhododendron arborescent
- Slovak
- rododendron stromovitý
- Lithuanian
- Aukštasis rododendras
- Ukrainian
- Рододендрон деревний
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rhododendron arboreum (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.