‘Palestrina’

Name:
‘Palestrina’
Seed parent:
Malveticum x R.kaempferi
Pollen parent:
‘J.C. van Tol’
Flower size:
unknown
Flower colour:
unknown
Type:

Vuyk

Hybridizer:
Vuyk van Nes
Country:
Netherlands
Year registered:
1926
Links:
Deutsche Genbank Rhododendron
Rhododendra

While a nice and very old European evergreen garden azalea, it seems unlikely that the deciduous azalea 'J.C. van Tol' is actually the pollen parent, based on the leaf morphology to be quite normal for an evergreen azalea. Also, the whiteness of the flower is not suspected giving the species nature of the seed parents. It seems more likely this is a hybrid between a white form of R.kaempferi and R.mucronatum.

Palestrina Vuyk azalea flowers
Image credit: Odo Tschetsch
Palestrina Vuyk azalea flowers
Image credit: Odo Tschetsch
Palestrina Vuyk azalea flowers
Image credit: William C. Miller III
Palestrina Vuyk azalea flowers
Image credit: William C. Miller III
Hereditary Tree
‘Palestrina’
Malveticum x R.kaempferi‘J.C. van Tol’
‘Malvaticum’R. kaempferi




Offspring:
‘Columba’, cross: ‘Palestrina’ x ‘Esmeralda’
‘Violeta Zvaigznite’, cross: ‘Palestrina’ x ‘Esmeralda’
‘Rozaina Zvaigznite’, cross: ‘Palestrina’ x ‘Esmeralda’