Rhododendron augustinei Hemsl.
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Rhododendron augustinii, called the blue rhododendron or Augustine's rhododendron, is a species of flowering plant in the genus Rhododendron native to central China and Tibet. Its Electra Group has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rhododendron augustinii", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Rhododendron
Rhododendron, from Ancient Greek ῥόδον (rhódon), meaning "rose", and δένδρον (déndron), meaning "tree", is a very large genus of about 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae). They can be either evergreen or deciduous. Most species are native to eastern Asia and the Himalayan region, but smaller numbers occur elsewhere in Asia, and in North America, Europe and Australia.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Rhododendron", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Rhododendron in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Group. Listed under the genus Rhododendron in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Jebulon, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Kor!An (Андрей Корзун), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3); Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (2).
Related
Similar habitat climate Not checked: GBIF's records were not asked (why, under the name), and the nearest habitat climates are read from the climate they give.
Other Rhododendron 574 in the reference
Rhododendron aberconwayi Ericaceae Photo: Public domain, Daderot Rhododendron abietifolium Ericaceae Rhododendron acrophilum Ericaceae 
Rhododendron adamsii Sagan Dalya Photo: CC BY, Valentin Kosterin
Rhododendron adenogynum Ericaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Kurt Stüber
Rhododendron adenopodum Ericaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Ulf Eliasson
Rhododendron adenosum Ericaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot
Rhododendron aeruginosum Ericaceae Photo: CC BY, Siddarth Machado
Rhododendron aganniphum Ericaceae Photo: CC0, Daderot Rhododendron agathodaemonis Ericaceae 
Rhododendron alabamense Alabama azalea Photo: CC BY, Rob John
Rhododendron albiflorum White rhododendron Photo: CC0, author not stated all 575 ›Names & registers
Also known as Azalea augustinei. (WCVP, RBG Kew)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Rhododendron augustinei Hemsl. (plant_name_id 2418896), read from Kew's names filegbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedgbif.occurrences not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedwcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04climate not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked, and the habitat climate is read only from themwikidata answeredasked 2026-10-22found by Kew's IPNI identifier 331981-1, POWO 331981-1wikipedia answeredasked 2026-10-22Wikipedia's article Rhododendron augustinii, the English article of this species' Wikidata item (Q12333373)inat.photos.wild not askedinat.photos.cultivated not askedgbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not askedcommons answeredasked 2026-10-22openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshotEvery source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence.