Korean rhododendron
Rhododendron mucronulatum Turcz.
- light
- Part sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 1.6 m
- wide
- 1.8 m
Ericaceae
Formerly Rhododendron taquetii
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Russian Far East to N. & E. China and Korea, WC. & S. JapanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Part shade (3 to 6 h)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia part
- Height
- 1.2 m to 2.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 4–8 ft; Wikipedia 1–2 m
- Spread
- 1.2 m to 2.4 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- PurpleRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, purple; Wikipedia purple
- Coldest it survives
- -27.2 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -34.4 °C; Wikipedia -20 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (10)
- French
- Azalée mucronée
- Korean
- 진달래
- Japanese
- カラムラサキツツジ
- Russian
- Рододендрон остроконечный
- Chinese (China)
- 迎红杜鹃, 尖叶杜鹃, 映山红
- Danish
- Koreansk rododendron
- Finnish
- koreanalppiruusu
- Slovak
- rododendron krátkohrotitý
- Chinese
- 迎山红, 迎红杜鹃
- Simplified Chinese
- 迎红杜鹃
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Rhododendron mucronulatum (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.