Just as botanists describe, on the most inhospitable mountaintops, amid powerful winds, biting frosts and heavy snow, on dry, infertile soil where conditions are too harsh even for the Formosan cypress and Hinoki cypress which otherwise grow to such huge size, Taiwan's Yushan rhododendron (R. pseudochrys-anthum) shrugs off the unrelenting onslaught of the elements and grows in thick clumps everywhere, changing the color of the mountain forests and grassland.
正如植物學者形容的，山巔絕嶺上，風暴、霜急、雪重，夥同乾旱、低溫、土壤化育不良，連專事製造神木的紅檜、扁柏都退位了，台灣玉山杜鵑卻不理睬這無時無刻的環境鞭笞，叢叢簇簇，此起彼落，讓山林、草原為之變色。