Rhododendron indicum ‘Balsaminaeflorum’ Woodlanders Introduction Botanists now often treat the

Botanists now often treat the plant as a variety of the bigleaf magnolia

the species wants cool

The species epithet periclymenoides means resembling Periclymenum

The trunks carry a heavier history too: at the Battle of Sullivan's Island in 1776

'John Clayton' was discovered growing on the grounds of the seventeenth-century Abingdon Church in Gloucester County

Rhododendron indicum ‘Balsaminaeflorum’ Woodlanders Introduction Botanists now often treat the'Balsaminaeflorum' is a dwarf evergreen Satsuki azalea, an old Japanese cultivar of Rhododendron indicum grown for flowers that look less like azaleas than like tiny roses. Each bloom is fully double, packed with forty or more petals and carrying neither pistil nor stamens, so the flower is all soft, ruffled color. The cultivar name means balsam flowered, a nod to the double blooms of the garden balsam, while indicum, meaning of India, is an old