{"id":15222,"date":"2023-08-10T06:39:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/rhododendron_albrechtii_albrecht_s_azalea\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:48:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:48:28","slug":"rhododendronalbrechtii","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/rhododendronalbrechtii\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron albrechtii &#8211; Albrecht&#x2019;s azalea"},"content":{"rendered":"<article role=\"article\" class=\"node node-type-plant node-view-mode-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/rhododendron_albrechtii_kukinta_jsaarinen.jpg\" alt=\"rhododendron_albrechtii_kukinta_jsaarinen.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Japan was long closed to Europeans, which is why this beautiful deciduous azalea has remained almost unknown in the West. Albrecht\u2019s azalea was brought to European notice by Michael \u2013 you guessed it \u2013 Albrecht, who worked in the \u0420\u0443\u0441\u0441\u043a\u0438\u0439 Consulate at Hakodate on Hokkaido Island in the second half of the 1800s. However, it wasn\u2019t until the early 1900s that the species became more widespread in western collections.<\/p>\n<p>Albrecht\u2019s azalea thrives in the cold climate of the upper mountain slopes of Hokkaido and Honshu, where it grows slowly to a few metres high. Early in spring, when the rest of the countryside still looks wintry, the cyclamen-red flowers burst open near the tips of the bare branches. Soon afterwards the new foliage appears at the branch tips in bunches of five leaves, typical of this group.<\/p>\n<p>In Finland, Albrecht\u2019s azalea has for decades shown itself one of the hardiest of the azaleas, though sometimes severe spring frosts can damage its early buds and flowers. More of these beautiful shrubs should be planted in Suomi gardens to start the flowering season a little earlier.<\/p>\n<aside id=\"keywords\">\n<h2>Keywords<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"ryhmittely\">Lehtipuut ja -pensaat<\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Rhododendron<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Rhododendron albrechtii<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"location\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/alueet\/havuterassi\" hreflang=\"fi\">Havuterassi<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7024,"template":"","alueet":[1015],"kasvilajit":[1095,1926],"class_list":["post-15222","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","alueet-havuterassi-en","kasvilajit-deciduous_trees_and_shrubs","kasvilajit-alppiruusut-lajit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kasvit"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15222"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}