Rhododendron galactinum 'Galacticus'
Item: SGALG
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April

White & Cream

150-175cm

Not Scented

Yes

To -20 °C
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(H6 FALCONERA) Pink in bud, opening to white flowers with a prominent dark crimson blotch in the throat. The rounded flower trusses are composed of 9 to 15 campanulate flowers each with 7 lobes, in April-May. This plant has matt green oblong leaves up to 210mm long and attractive dense cinnamon indumentum on the undersides. It is distinctive with its brown wooly tomentose young growth buds. The plant has rough grey-brown bark on its stems and grows with an upright habit, reaching a height of 150-175 cm in 10 years, eventually growing up to 8m tall.
Epithet: Milky.
This is a really good flowering form of R. galactinum selected by Ted Millais and growing at Crosswater Farm. It was much admired by species expert and author John McQuire who rated it highly.
- Recommended for cold gardens where other big leaved species may not grow.
- Plantsman range.
- Ideal position: sheltered woodland, will not tolerate heat or sudden drops in temperature.
- Habit: upright, tree-like.
- Group: Species Rhododendron.
- Subsection: Falconera.
- Introduction date: pre 1950 (1910).
- Species distribution: Central & W Sichuan.
- Approximate altitude: 2,300 to 3,300m.
- Ideal soil: pH 4.5 to 6.5.
- RHS Hardiness Rating: H5.
- How we usually propagate this plant: Cutting.