#1457 most planted
Rhododendron schlippenbachii
Royal azalea
41
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
2
cities
2.0 in
median trunk (5 cm, 30 measured)
11 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)
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Rhododendron schlippenbachii, also known as the royal azalea, is a temperate shrub or small tree native to the Korean Peninsula, Northeast China, Japan, and the Russian Far East. It is a dominant understory shrub found in Korean hillside forests at altitudes of 400–1,500 m.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 300.04%11 yr2.0 in
- 110.01%9.4 yr—
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central Korean deciduous forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
- Southern Korea evergreen forests
Other Rhododendron in the catalogue
20 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
