| Blotch |
A darker colored
spot on the top upright petal of some rhododendrons.
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| Clone |
The name applied to a
plant propagated asexually so that it is genetically
identical to its parent. Clones are produced from
cuttings, layering, grafting, or tissue culture, but not
from seeds.
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| Cultivars |
A group of cultivated
plants with distinguishable characteristics (for example,
a particular flower color or growth habit) that differ
from the normal form of the plant. When reproduced,
cultivars retain these characteristics. The term is
derived from CULTIvated VARiety.
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| Elepidote |
Elepidote, meaning
without scales, denotes a group of rhododendrons that have
no scales on the leaf undersides.
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| Hybrid |
An interspecific
hybrid is a plant produced by crossing two different
species to produce a hybrid plant.
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| Indumentums |
The woolly or hairy
covering on the leaf surface is called indumentum.
Densely matted hairs are also called tomentum
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| Lepidote |
Lepidote, which means
scales, is a group of rhododendrons with tiny scales on
the undersides of the leaves.
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| Lobe |
A lobe is the rounded
division of a flower.
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| Species |
A species is a basic
unit of classification used to designate groups of plants
(and animals) that are recognizable as distinct and can
freely interbreed among themselves.
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| Sport |
A spontaneous plant
mutation, usually appearing as a shoot with different
colored or shaped flowers from the rest of the plant on
which it is growing , is called a sport.
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| Truss |
The flower cluster of
a rhododendron is called a truss.
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| Variety |
A variety is a
naturally occurring variation of a wild species.
Variety is often used the same as cultivars.
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