Amazing flower. The birthplace of the flower - Japan, India and China. Plants can not stand the heat and feel comfortable in a cool area, high in the mountains and slums. In the wild there are impassable thickets of azalea shrubs.
The plant quickly won the love of not only experienced flower growers, but also people who never took a great interest in flowers. And who does not like the bright hat of airy butterflies? In different countries, the azalea flower has a certain culture of cultivation: Hindus like meter fluffy bushes, and the Japanese have created a whole direction in the art of bonsai and taught the world to grow amazing trees from rhododendron.
In Asia, azalea is also known as the English rose or pink tree. In Greek, it sounds like “rhododendron”. It is under this second name that this plant is known. But the azalea from the Greek language is translated as “dry”. And there is nothing strange in this: on the dry branches of the plant, flowers first appear and only then leaves open.
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