Rhododendron x pulchrum. Natural hybrid of R. mucronatum var mucronatum × R. indicum var formosanum. C. Rawson's azalea, Azalea rawsonii. Native to China, specimen raised by John Menzies, gardener to Christopher Rawson of Hope House, Halifax. Handcoloured engraving by Frederick William Smith after a botanical illustration by Samuel Holden from Joseph Paxton’s Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants, Volume 3, Orr, London, 1837.

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