Rhododendron ( Seito no Hana Satsuki Hybrid Azalea )
The Satsuki Nipponese azalea are believed to have originated several hundred years ago from natural crosses between R. indicum and R. tamarae . ( R. tamarae was formerly have sex as R. eriocarpum and before that as R. simsii var . eriocarpum . ) Later , horticulturists continued the crosses between these two species as well as others . Compact , low - growing , evergreen plant shrub that is twiggy and dense with a spread to rounded form ....