The word "rhododendron" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the large genus of flowering plants. For example, "My garden is full of beautiful rhododendrons in the spring."
Rummaging through the case, she eventually produced a beautiful picture of herself, aged about five, beaming out of the middle of a flowering rhododendron, and said, "I want you to have this".
And for all the dazzle of the London Palladium or the Ed Sullivan Show, there was perhaps no more evocative venue for Mr Aspinall than the Casbah Club in the basement of his lover-landlady's house, where behind the rhododendron hedges the Silver Beetles, as they then were, would play on Saturday nights.
There is a "Graham Thomas" honeysuckle here, a rhododendron there.
Terrified villagers and monks fled through the pine and rhododendron forests to nearby Bhutan.
In Britain, zealots go out "rhodie-bashing" to slash away that "invasive" native of Asia, the rhododendron, that now beautifies the woods of Surrey and Scottish lochsides.What has changed, to make the aliens so unwelcome?
In the temperate zone above this up to about 11,000 feet (3,350 metres)—shrubs of the azalea and rhododendron family carpet the hills.
Common tree species of the temperate forests include Himalayan cedar (Deodar cedar), Himalayan (blue) pine, oak, silver fir, spruce, chestnut, elm, poplar, birch, yew, cypress, and rhododendron.
The valleys contain stands of rhododendron and forests of birch and pine, while above the tree line alpine vegetation extends to the feet of the glaciers.
Within its drainage basin of 307 square miles (795 square km) are more than 30 square miles (78 square km) of wetlands, supporting such rare plants as the great laurel rhododendron, dragon's-mouth, and river bulrush.
The nursery business is about equally divided between the production of (1) coniferous evergreens such as yew, juniper, spruce, and pine; (2) broad-leaved evergreens such as rhododendron, camellia, holly, and boxwood; (3) deciduous plants such as forsythia, viburnum, berberis, privet, lilac, and clematis; and (4) roses.
