{"id":15634,"date":"2023-08-10T06:41:32","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/rhododendron_helsinki_university\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:47:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:47:14","slug":"rhododendronhelsinkiunversity","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/rhododendronhelsinkiunversity\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron &#8216;Helsinki University&#8217;"},"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_helsinki_university_turunsaaristo_kristiantheqvist.jpg\" alt=\"rhododendron_helsinki_university_turunsaaristo_kristiantheqvist.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Helsinki University&#8217; is an extremely hardy mid-sized rhododendron hybrid. It was the first of the Suomi hybrids, introduced in 1990, the University\u2019s 350th anniversary. The female parent was the Mustila Rhododendron (<em>R. brachycarpum<\/em> var. <em>tigerstedtii<\/em>), but the pollinator is not known.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful flowers cover the shrub about the middle of June. They are pink with a dark spotted pattern, the whole plant being similar to the \u2018Haaga\u2019 hybrid. The easiest distinguishing feature is the colour of the buds, with those on \u2018Haaga\u2019 being redder. Also the stamen filaments in the \u2018Haaga\u2019 flowers are deeper pink than those of \u2018Helsinki University\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Helsinki University&#8217; has a regular round habit, growing to 1.5m in 10 years. At Mustila it has grown to man size since planting early this century.<\/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 &#8216;Helsingin Yliopisto&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"plants\"><a href=\"\" hreflang=\"und\">Rhododendron &#8216;Helsinki University&#8217;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8609,"template":"","alueet":[],"kasvilajit":[1923,1253,1150],"class_list":["post-15634","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kasvilajit-alppiruusut-2","kasvilajit-rhododendron_evergreen_hybrid_cultivars","kasvilajit-rhododendron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15634","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\/8609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15634"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}