Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. ed. 2, 1:562. 1762
Verified:
05/19/1998
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Reference(s)
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- Botanical Society of the British Isles. BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
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- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998
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Common names
English
common rhododendron – Pontian rhododendron – rhododendron – Swedish
pontisk rododendron –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Georgia | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Caucasus | Russian Federation | Krasnodar | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Lebanon | | |
1 | Native | Asia-Temperate | Western Asia | Turkey | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southeastern Europe | Bulgaria | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Portugal | | |
1 | Native | Europe | Southwestern Europe | Spain | | |
2 | Cultivated | | | | | |
4 | Naturalized | Africa | Macaronesia | Portugal | Madeira Islands | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | Middle Europe | Belgium | | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | Middle Europe | Netherlands | | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | Northern Europe | Ireland | | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | Northern Europe | United Kingdom | | |
4 | Naturalized | Europe | Southwestern Europe | France | | |
4 | Naturalized | Northern America | | United States | | |
Native
Asia-Temperate
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CAUCASUS:
Georgia, Russian Federation [Krasnodar]
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WESTERN ASIA:
Lebanon, Turkey
Europe
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SOUTHEASTERN EUROPE:
Bulgaria
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
Spain, Portugal
Cultivated
()
Naturalized
Africa
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MACARONESIA:
Portugal [Madeira Islands]
Europe
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MIDDLE EUROPE:
Belgium, Netherlands
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NORTHERN EUROPE:
United Kingdom, Ireland
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SOUTHWESTERN EUROPE:
France
Northern America
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Environmental | ornamental | | Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. Flora europaea. 1964-1980 |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002 |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning. 1998 |
Weed | | | Krüssmann, G. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976). 1984 |
Cite as: USDA, Agricultural Research Service, National Plant Germplasm System.
2024. Germplasm Resources Information Network
(GRIN Taxonomy). National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
URL: https://ausgenebank.agriculture.vic.gov.au/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=31511.
Accessed 20 September 2024.