{"id":15494,"date":"2023-08-10T06:40:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/rhododendron_fraseri_rhododendron_fraseri\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:50:46","slug":"rhododendronfraseri","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/rhododendronfraseri\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron × fraseri – Rhododendron ‘Fraseri’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Nurseryman George Fraser emigrated from Scotland to Canada in the late 1800s and bought 100 hectares of forest on Vancouver Island, where he established a new nursery. In his breeding programme he used many other genera, in addition to rhododendrons.Fraser\u2019s first hybrid rhododendron was largely a matter of chance. He had ordered cranberry plants from Nova Scotia, among which he found an extra \u201cweed\u201d, a small rhodora (R<\/em>. canadense<\/em>), which he planted. It flowered for the first time 15 years later, when he dusted it with pollen from a Japanese azalea, renge tutuzi (R<\/em>. molle <\/em>subsp. japonicum<\/em>). He later sent some of the resulting plants in bud to Boston\u2019s Arnold Arboretum and London\u2019s Kew Gardens which both \u2013 independently of each other \u2013 named them Rhododendron x fraseri<\/em>. They have been registered under the name \u2018Fraseri-group\u2019.<\/p>\n

R. \u2019Fraseri\u2019 has grown at Mustila at least since the 1950s. The small shrub looks at first glance like a large rhodora. It flowers abundantly at the end of May every year, slightly later than the rhodora but before most other azaleas. The reddish violet, scentless flowers are somewhat orchid-like, like those of rhodora but larger.<\/p>\n