Rhododendron Fortune (selfed)
- Code: HFORT
- Flower Colour: Yellow
- Flowering Month: April
- Height After 10 Years: 150-175cm
- Interesting Foliage: No
- Scent: Not Scented
- Hardiness: To -10 °C
Seed raised plants of this highly rated hybrid between Rhododendron falconeri and sinogrande. This plant has large bell-shaped primrose yellow flowers with a crimson blotch. It flowers March to April and has a wonderful tan indumentum underneath the leaves. Height 150-180cm in 10 years.
- Recommended for: Early flower and great foliage.
- Plantsman range.
- Ideal position: Sheltered woodland, dappled shade.
- Habit: Treelike.
- Group: Hybrid Rhododendron.
- Parentage: fortunei (s) X sinogrande.
- Hybridization date: pre 1950 (1938).
- Bred by: L. de Rothschild (Exbury). Origin: British.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H3.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Seed.
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