Rhododendron occidentale is a shrub growing to 5 m tall. The leaves are deciduous, 3–9 cm long and 1–3 cm broad. The flowers are 3.5–5 cm diameter, with five lobes on the corolla; color varies from white to pink, often with a yellow blotch.

Names: Occidentale means western; so Rhododendron occidentale, literally means, “western rose-tree.” It is sometimes called Pacific Azalea or California Azalea. Relationships: Azaleas are divided into two subgenera (deciduous and evergreen) in the very large genus of rhododendron (see Pacific Rhododendron).

Deciduous shrub, 10 ft (3 m), compact, upright. Leaves 3-9 cm long, elliptic or oblong-lanceolate, upper side glossy green, underside pubescent; in fall leaves may turn yellow, scarlet or crimson. Blooms at or after leaf emergence.

Western azalea (Rhododendron occidentale) colors brightly in autumn at The Cedars, combined here with maroon trunks of manzanita (arctostaphylos) and silvery leaves of Rhamnus californica subsp. tomentella.

Regarded as the largest flowered, scented, white azalea species, Rhododendron occidentale, commonly known as Western Azalea, is a plant of great beauty and captivating fragrance that appeals to virtually everyone who comes upon it.

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Western Azalea (Rhododendron occidentale (Torr. & A. Gray) A. Gray) By Russell Holmes. Western azalea is in the Ericaceae (Heath Family) which contains approximately 65 genera and over 1400 species. Species in the Heath Family are widely distributed ranging from deserts to high elevation tropic environments.

Western Azalea is one of only 2 species native to the Western Coast of North America. It ranges from the coastal regions of western North America to the Cascade and Sierra Nevada mountain ranges. The plant is a woody flowering perennial in the Heath family, Ericaceae.

Deciduous shrub or small tree, to 8 (–10) m; young twigs glabrous to densely covered with gland-tipped and/or eglandular hairs. Leaves (2.5–)3.5–8.2 (–10.8) × (0.8)1.2–2.9 (–3.6) cm, ovate to obovate or elliptic, lower surface usually covered with …

Rhododendron occidentale, the western azalea or California azalea, is one of two deciduous Rhododendron species native to western North America (the other is Rhododendron albiflorum). The western azalea is known to occur as far north as Lincoln and Douglas Counties in Oregon and as far south as the mountains of San Diego county.