For The Big Leaf Fancier

Bruce Clyburn lives in New Waterford, Nova Scotia, Canada.

This presentation was prepared by Bruce Clyburn who has given the American Rhododendon Society Massachusetts Chapter permission for use on our Your Gateway to Rhododendrons in New England web site.

Definition

Group 1: Plants with a Good Chance of Success

Rhododendron maximum (typical)

Rhododendron calophytum seedling

Rhododendron calophytum

Rhododendron sutchuenense seedlings in abandoned cold frame

Rhododendron sutchuenense

Rhododendron 'Spellbinder'

Rhodododendron 'Spellbinder' leaves up to 11 inches

Rhododendron 'Robin Hood' = Rhododendron calophytum x Rhododendron sutchuenense

Rhododendron 'Babylon' = Rhododendron calophytum x Rhododendron pravernum

Rhododendron 'Geraldii' = Rhododendron sutchuenense x Rhododendron pravernum

Rhododendron 'March Madness' = 'PurpureumElgans' X Rhododendron calophytum Gustav A. L. Mehlquist

Rhododendron 'Tip Off' = 'Chionoides' X Rhododendron calophytum Gustav A. L. Mehlquist

Rhododendron 'Calfort' = Rhododendron fortunei x Rhododendron calophytum Collingwood Ingram cross A.M. 1932.

Rhododendron maximum x Rhododendron calophytum

Rhododendron 'Andrew Patton' = 'Scintillation' x Rhododendron calophytum

Rhododendron sutchuenense x 'Barbara Hall' John Weagle cross

Rhododendron 'Bosutch' = 'Boule de Neige' x Rhododendron sutchuenense

Group 2: Plants with Reasonable Chance of Success

Rhodendron 'Great Dane' = Rhododendron yakushimanum x Rhododendron rex Jens Birck

Rhododendron 'Great Dane' = Rhododendron yakushimanum x Rhododendron rex Jens Birck

Rhododendron yakushimanum x Rhododendron rex ssp. fictolacteum B. Clyburn (ARS seed)

Rhododendron yakushimanum x Rhododendron rex ssp. fictolacteum Bruce Clyburn (ARS seed)

Rhododendron brachycarpum x Rhododendron macabeanum Ron Rabideau

(Rhododendron rex ssp. fictolacteum x Rhododendron yakushimanum) x 'Hardy Giant' Bruce Clyburn (ARS seed)

'Hardy Giant' = Rhododendron fortunei x Rhododendron rex ssp fictolacteum Mrs. Knippenberg

Rhododendron 'Great Dane' x Rhododendron rex Bruce Clyburn (ARS seed)

Rhododendron 'Hardy Giant' = Rhododendron fortunei x Rhododendron rex ssp fictolacteum Mrs. Knippenberg

Rhododendron 'Jurassic Fantasy' Al Raustein of Long Island?

Rhododendron 'Catalgla' x Rhododendron rex Bruce Clyburn (ARS seed)

Rhododendron fortunei, var LuShan X Rhododendron rex KW4509 Howard Kline

BVT x Rhododendron rex Kristian Theqvist

Rhododendron smirnowii x Rhododendron rex ssp fictolacteum Carl Adam Lehmann

Teddy Bear x Rhododendron rex (Bear Cubs) Sharon and Bill - Antigonish Nova Scotia

Rhododendron Sandra Hinton x Rhododendron rex Bruce Clyburn cross

Catalgla x Rhododendron fictolacteum David Leach

Rhododendron BVT x Rhododendron rex Kaarl Voitk

Rhododendron macabeanum x BVT Anders Blomqvist, Hammarö, Karlstad

(BVT x Rhododendron auriculatum) x (Babylon x Rhododendron auriculatum) Bruce Clyburn (ARS seed)

Group 3: Plants with Less than Reasonable Chance of Success

BVT 'Tony Law' x Rhododendron montroseanum John Weagle cross

Additional Seedlings - no picture at this time

Article by Joachim Jäck in Hamburg a.k.a. 'Bobby Banana' - yes that's right. He uses this pseudonym because he grows hardy bananas

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