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Rhododendron arboreum (Tree Rhododendron)

Synonyms: Rhododendron album; Rhododendron arboreum var. arboreum; Rhododendron cordifolium; Rhododendron nepalense; Rhododendron zeylanicum

Wikipedia Abstract

Rhododendron arboreum, the tree rhododendron, also known as burans or gurans, is an evergreen shrub or small tree with a showy display of bright red flowers. It is found in Bhutan, China, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Rhododendron arboreum is the national flower of Nepal; in India it is the state tree of Uttarakhand and state flower of Himachal Pradesh and Nagaland.
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Infraspecies

Rhododendron arboreum albotomentosum
Rhododendron arboreum arboreum
Rhododendron arboreum nilagiricum
Rhododendron arboreum var. cinnamomeum
Rhododendron arboreum var. roseum
Rhododendron arboreum zeylanicum

Attributes

Specific Gravity [1]  0.491

Predators

Fiorinia himalaica[2]
Pinnaspis rhododendri[2]
Stephanitis rhododendri (rhododendron lace bug)[3]

External References

Citations

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♦ 1Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 2Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 3Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0