A small, compact evergreen shrub, to 1.2m tall, with neat, light matt green foliage, bronze when young and often also in winter. Funnel-shaped pale yellow flowers, to 3cm in width, marked green in the throat, are held in small trusses in mid-spring
1-1.5 metres
0.5-1 metres
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Grow in moist but well-drained, leafy, humus-rich acid soil, best in part shade with shelter but grows well in full sun if soil remains reliably moist; see rhododendron cultivation
Propagate by semi-ripe cuttings in late summer, layering in autumn or grafting in late summer or late winter
May be susceptible to vine weevil, rhododendron leafhopper, pieris lacebug, scale insects, caterpillars and aphids
May be susceptible to various Rhododendron diseases including powdery mildews, rhododendron petal blight, rhododendron bud blast, silver leaf and honey fungus