What is Rhododendron?
{{italic title}} {{Taxobox | name = ''Rhododendron'' | image = rhododendron-by-eiffel-public-domain-20040617.jpg | image_width = 250px | image_caption = ''[[Rhododendron ponticum]]'' | regnum = [[Plantae]] | divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]] | classis = [[Magnoliopsida]] | ordo = [[Ericales]] | familia = [[Ericaceae]] | genus = '''''Rhododendron''''' | genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]}} '''''Rhododendron''''' is a large [[genus]] of [[flowering plant]]s. It includes 1,024 [[species]] of woody plants in the [[heath]] family (Ericaceae). Some are [[evergreen]], and some are [[deciduous]]. They are found mainly in [[Asia]]. Most of them have quite showy [[flower]]s. What [[Gardening|gardeners]] know as '''Azalea''' is in fact a kind of rhododendron. Many people have rhododendrons in their [[garden]] or flower pot. It is the national flower of [[Nepal]]. One rhododendron, ''[[Rhododendron ponticum]]'', has become an [[Invasive species]] in [[North America]]. <gallery> File:Rhododendron caucasicum, Plants, Flowers, Caucasus Mountains.jpg|Rhododendron caucasicum File:Parco della Burcina-Rhododendron-DSCF0199.JPG|''Rhododendron sp.'' File:A Unidentified Rhododendron blüte 123.jpg| File:A Rhododendron buds wp uf.jpg| </gallery> {{Biology-stub}} [[Category:Rhododendron]] [[Category:National symbols of Nepal]]