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The Mysterious Scarlet Flower

Botanical illustration of Therorhodion camtschaticum

Rhododendrons are truly some of the most beautiful plants created by nature. Both the diversity of species, of which there are more than one thousand, and the variety of natural conditions to which they adapt, are impressive. They can range in form from enormous trees of 80 feet (25 m), to cushion-like shrubs of four to twelve inches (10-30 cm) in size. In this article, I am going to share the tiny rhododendrons that I have observed since my childhood in my homeland on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk in eastern Russia. I am going to talk about the Kamchatka rhododendron.

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Fall color on Therorhodion glandulosum in Magadan, Russia
Fall color on Therorhodion glandulosum in Magadan, Russia. Photo by A. N. Berkutenko
The author with Therorhodion redowskianum
T. camtschaticum in a rocky rift, Sakhiline, Chehov mountain
Therorhodion camtschaticum in Kamchatka, at the foot of the Mutnovsky volcano  Photo by A. N. Berkutenko
Therorhodion glandulosum on Cape Orlov in the  Khabarovsk region, Russia
T. camtschaticum on Zhdanko ridge, Sakhalin Island
Botanical illustration of Therorhodion camtschaticum
Botanical illustration of  Therorhodion glandulosum
Range of Therorhodion species, with arrows showing their past migrations.
Therorhodion camtschaticum in a rocky rift of  Mendeleev volcano on  Kunashir Island

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