Rhododendron, Korean Rhododendron 'Cornell Pink'

A deciduous rhododendron, especially useful because of its exceptional winter hardiness and its exceptionally early season of bloom.
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This cultivar was selected because the flower color is much closer to pink than that of the species, which is a lavender-pink or pinkish lavender. It is definitely not magenta.

It adds color to the landscape in spring when the forsythias are in bloom. Lovely when in bloom, it fades into the background afterwards.

In the wild, this is a woodland understory shrub, and it does well here in light deciduous shade.

This pink azalea has been growing in my front yard under some oak trees with only minimal direct sunlight in the growing months of spring...Read More and Summer. It has consistantly bloomed with bright pink crepe paper like blooms for 10 out of the last 12 years it was planted. A beautiful shrub in the early spring when other azaleas have not yet bloomed. Attains about a 5 ft height and 3 foot spread. This is in Cedar Rapids, Iowa (zone 5)