Yellow-flowered rhododendron
Yellow-flowered rhododendron>
Japanese name Yellow-flowered rhododendron
English name Yellow-flowered rhododendron
Scientific name Rhododendron aureum
Taxonomy ツツジ目ツツジ科ツツジ属

Flower diameter 3-4 cm. Height 10 to 30 cm.

It is an evergreen small shrub that grows naturally in alpine grasslands and high pine belts.

You can see a large colony around the Sugatami-Pond. It blooms about two weeks after the thaw and turns to be a yellow field.

Flowers color is cream white, but after the pollination, It turns pink.


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