{"id":15652,"date":"2023-08-10T06:41:36","date_gmt":"2023-08-10T06:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/kasvit\/rhododendron_vaseyi_pink_shell_azalea\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:47:24","slug":"rhododendronvaseyi","status":"publish","type":"kasvit","link":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/plants\/rhododendronvaseyi\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhododendron vaseyi &#8211; pink shell 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_vaseyi_ojussila.jpg\" alt=\"rhododendron_vaseyi_ojussila.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The pink shell azalea grows naturally in the forests of North Carolina in the USA. When it flowers in May on the bare branches it looks as if a cloud of beautiful butterflies has landed to greet the arrival of summer. The blossoms are mainly in shades of pale pink, though some white varieties have been selected and named.<\/p>\n<p>Exceptionally among the hundreds of natural <em>Rhododendron <\/em>species, the pink shell azalea is one of the very few that refuses to cross with other members of the genus. Not that it needs to be improved by crossing; its slender beauty is in a class of its own. The pink shell belongs to the <em>Rhodora <\/em>section, whose only other species is <em>R<\/em>. <em>canadense <\/em>(English common name: rhodora), but they are not closely related.<\/p>\n<p>The pink shell suits woodland gardens perfectly in combination with similar plants such as rhodora, Chinese Alprose (<em>R<\/em>. <em>dauricum<\/em>), or the Korean <em>R<\/em>. <em>mucronulatum<\/em>. In fact, it deserves a place in every woodland garden; it needs little care and is in an untamed way one of the very best of the genus.<\/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 vaseyi<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"location\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/alueet\/atsalearinne\" hreflang=\"fi\">Atsalearinne<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/aside>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8677,"template":"","alueet":[1012],"kasvilajit":[949,1926,1150],"class_list":["post-15652","kasvit","type-kasvit","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","alueet-atsalearinne-en","kasvilajit-alppiruusut","kasvilajit-alppiruusut-lajit","kasvilajit-rhododendron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvit\/15652","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\/8677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"alueet","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/alueet?post=15652"},{"taxonomy":"kasvilajit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mustila.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kasvilajit?post=15652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}