Rhododendron ( Tama Giku Satsuki Hybrid Azalea )
The Satsuki Nipponese azaleas are believed to have originate several hundred years ago from natural crosses between R. indicum and R. tamarae . ( R. tamarae was formerly known as R. eriocarpum and before that as R. simsii var . eriocarpum . ) Later , horticulturists stay on the crosses between these two species as well as others . Compact , low - growing , evergreen shrub that is twiggy and dense with a public exposure to rounded phase ....