21. The Trinity
Cultivars of the Rhododendron Triflorum-group (flowers in triplets).
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In this group the flowers appear in triplets, hence the name, Triflorum. Whilst the individual inflorescences are not large, they are produced in such great numbers that the plants are completely covered in bloom. They have sadly not been much used, neither in our gardens nor in breeding.
They are the larger relatives of the small, lepidote, alpine species, found on 24. The Blue Hill with which they have often been crossed to obtain lower, more densely growing plants, e.g. 鈥楻ussautinii鈥� (= R. russatum 脳 augustinii).
鈥楥ontina鈥�, with its unusually colourful red-violet flowers, is quite sumptuous, and not to forget our own 鈥楳adam Felle鈥� which was baptized (of course in beer) by Lord Mayor Henrik Lis忙th in the inauguration of the Rhododendrarium in central Bergen. It is a 鈥楬ummelhybrid鈥� of Rhododendron concinnum, so-called because one was created accidentally by a bumblebee. A deliberate cross of R. concinnum with R. ambiguum produced unusual 鈥渃hampagne coloured鈥� flowers.
