Scientific Name: Rhododendron 'Unique'
Common Name: Unique rhododendron
Family Name: Ericaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Broadleaf evergreen
Mature Size: 0.7 - 1.3m x 1.0 - 1.5m (height x width)
Habit: Dense
Form: Round
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Group or mass planting, Mixed shrub border
Exposure: Full sun, Part sun/part shade
Soil or Media: Acidic, Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Entire
Flowers: Flowers clustered, Yellow, Pink, Apr-May
Fruit: Brown
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, most blades elliptic, 5-7(-10)cm long x 3-5cm wide, margin entire, apex with an obvious mucronate tip ~1mm long, petioles 1-1.5cm long; flowers ~6cm wide, pinkish in bud to creamy-white when fully open, up to 14 per cluster.