Description
Rhododendron simsii (scientific name: Rhododendron lutescens Franch.): shrub, 1-3 meters high. The young branches are slender and sparsely scaled. The leaves are scattered, papery, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate. Flowers 1-3 terminal or growing branches and leaf axils; persistent flower buds are arranged in scales and tiles; calyxes are underdeveloped, undulating and 5-lobed or ring-shaped; corollas are broad and funnel-shaped, slightly bilaterally symmetrical, 2-2.5 cm long, Yellow, 5-lobed to middle, lobes oblong; stamens unequal in length; ovary 5-cell, slender style, clean. Capsule cylindrical. Flowering period from March to April.
Born in the moist place of mixed wood forest or in limestone hillside shrubs, it is produced in Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan of China.
This species has a variety of artificially cultivated hybrid varieties and has high horticultural value.
