The red ones are like fire, the yellow ones like wax, the white ones like paper, and the purple ones like grapes ...; the biggest flowers are as large as peonies, the smallest as tiny as cloves .... "This is how Li Lin-tsan, in his Lin-tsan's Journey to the West, describes the rhododendrons which outnumber all the other flowers on Yunnan's Yulong Mountains.
紅的像火，黃的像蠟，白的像紙，紫的像葡萄……；大的花如牡丹，小的花如丁香……。」李霖燦先生在《霖燦西南遊記》中如此形容雲南玉龍山上獨佔花魁的杜鵑。