Pan Fu-jiunn, director of the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute's Division of Biology, has measured a Taiwan rhododendron (Rhododendron formosanum) with a trunk circumference of almost 80 centimeters, which falls little short of the world-record 82 cm of a trunk specimen at the British Museum.
林試所生物系主任潘富俊曾測量過好幾棵腰圍直徑接近八十公分的台灣杜鵑，和供在大英博物館、號稱世界最高記錄、樹圍八十二公分的杜鵑相較，也不遑多讓。