Flame Azalea is a Rhododendron species, a group sometimes referred to as “honeysuckle” because of the long “exerted” stamens like the familiar Japanese Honeysuckle.
They are brilliant now along the Blue Ridge Parkway in Floyd County, gone by in many lower elevation locations, just coming into full bloom higher up.
They range in color from the palest yellow to deep, dark orange and reds.
Stumble it!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Wanda Kidd // May 20, 2008 at 9:30 pm
Beautiful.
2 Pardon My French // May 22, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Oh, I miss those! I haven’t seen them here (yet). Thanks for the reminder of home.
3 Stanley // May 25, 2008 at 4:48 am
My mother loved those plants. Thanks for posting that and reminding me of her and the native azaleas. Here are 2 links to sites that deal with these plants:
http://www.ecoterralandscape.com/cgi-bin/ViewTopic.pl?Topic=00-030608cp
http://www.tjhsst.edu/~dhyatt/azaleas/index.html
4 Deb // May 27, 2008 at 1:15 pm
We saw lots of these orange-colored flowering shrubs at Biltmore Estates earlier this month, but I didn’t know what they were. We thought they looked like azaleas but weren’t sure since we’d never seen ORANGE azaleas! Thanks for the info.
5 Lynn Pritchett // Jun 15, 2008 at 10:05 pm
Thanks for this stunning photo of these glorious native beauties!
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