Rhododendron zoelleri
Section Euvireya: Subsection Euvireya
Height - to 10m - terrestrial
Leaves - broadly elliptic - 16 x 8cm
Flowers - funnel-shaped - 6cm x 9cm across - sometimes scented - up to 8 per umbel
Location - Indonesia & Papua New Guinea: widespread; Maluku: W. Seram: Ora Mts.
Sea-level - 2000m
Epithet - after Hugo Zoller, leader of the first expedition to the Finisterre Mountains, New Guinea, in 1891.
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Rhododendron zoelleri 'Decimus'
Section Euvireya: Subsection Euvireya
Originally collected by van Steenis in 1955 in the Wissel Lakes area of W. New Guinea, this clone
was exhibited by Kew in 1973 as 'Decimus' and given an Award of Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.
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Rhododendron zoelleri 'Island Sunset'
Section Euvireya: Subsection Euvireya
The clone 'Island Sunset' was raised by Don Stanton from seed collected on Goodenough Island,
off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, and was registered in 1972.
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Rhododendron zoelleri (pink form)
Section Euvireya: Subsection Euvireya
Height - to 10m - terrestrial
Leaves - broadly elliptic - 16 x 8cm
Flowers - funnel-shaped - 6cm x 9cm across - sometimes
scented - up to 8 per umbel
Location - Indonesia & Papua New Guinea: widespread;
Maluku: W. Seram: Ora Mts.
Sea-level - 2000m
Epithet - after Hugo Zoller, leader of the first expedition
to the Finisterre Mountains, New Guinea, in 1891.
The plant pictured was collected by Hansjorg Brentel in the Baliem Valley, near Wamena, in West New Guinea.
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Rhododendron zollingeri
Section Albovireya
Height - 4m - terrestrial
Leaves - narrowly ovate- 7.0 x 2.2cm
Flowers - tubular - 1.5cm - up to 8 per umbel
Location - Indonesia: C & E Java; Lesser Sunda Islands;
C & SW Sulawesi;
Philippines: Luzon: Benguet & Mountain Provinces - 1200-3090m
Epithet - after Heinrich Zollinger, 1818-1859, Swiss botanist who collected this species.
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