Over the past few months, I’ve been collecting a lot of pix of plants, shrubs and trees I find interesting, but have no clue as to what they are. I need you to help me with this.
First up is a shrub over to the corporate HQ that started out as
interesting buds, moved through flowers with a delicate fragrance and ended up
as kind of flower bones. I don’t think I’ve seen it anywhere else; not even
elsewhere in the corporate HQ campus.
#IDme:
When it comes to something that's planted, it's hard to be sure. You could be dealing with a cultivar, a hybrid, or a non-native. But if your plant is a native, it's Pinxter Azalea, Rhododendron periclymenoides, https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/49822-Rhododendron-periclymenoides. I have found it growing wild elsewhere in Reston.
ReplyDeleteThanks, David. I'm going to look for it to plant in my garden. So much more interesting than azaleas I've seen before.
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