![]() Lepidote hybrids, of which only a few hardy ones existed early this century, are now quite numerous, and some are valuable garden plants, e.g., the various dwarf and medium-sized blues resulting from crosses between R. Hymenanthes) cross readily among themselves, except that ‘elephant-mouse’ crosses are generally not successful. Hybrids between the two groups (Iepidote-elepidote crosses) are rare, and only one, ‘John Marchand’, is described here several have in fact been raised, but have presumably not been ornamental or vigorous enough to be worth propagating. Botanically, they fall into two major groups – the lepidote (scaly) and elepidote (non-scaly) rhododendrons – which are just as distinct from each other as either is from the azaleas. ![]() ![]() In a horticultural sense the rhododendrons are those members of the genus Rhododendron which are not classified as azaleas or azaleodendrons. ![]()
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