22+ Small Leaf Azalea

Azalea lacebug upper surface of leaves has a gray blanched or coarse stippled appearance. The undersides of the leaves become discolored by excrement and cast skins.

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Small leaf azalea

In april and may leaves and buds of infected plants develop distorted growth. As the leaves emerge in mid spring abundant ball shaped clusters of 8 funnel shaped white flowers up to 1 in. Prized for its compact habit luminous spring flowers and remarkable cold hardiness rhododendron windbeam is a popular small leaved deciduous azalea hybrid.

The azalea is the number one must have plant in the south. On average rhododendrons are larger shrubs than azalea plants and they have larger leaves. Azaleas need acid soil.

Azalea leafminers this azalea plant pest generally mines between the upper and lower surfaces of leaves causing brown blisters or yellowing on the leaves. Some of the native rhododendron species azaleas are more susceptible than hybrid rhododendrons. Wide 2 5 cm tinged with soft apricot appear at the branch tips adding elegance and beauty to this early midseason azalea.

All parts of coastal azalea are highly poisonous so don t grow this shrub where young children have easy access. In order for leaf buds to open the plant has to experience a period of cold weather followed by a period of warm weather. Within the rhododendrons themselves leaf size comparisons are used to make a further division between large leaf and small leaf types.

Coast this plant spreads through underground stolons which are specialized horizontal stems. The leaves on azalea plants tend to be smaller by comparison. Many people think of them as entirely different plants but they both belong to the genus rhododendron which comprises more than 800 species and 10 000 named selections.

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