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Rhododendron ‘Chevalier Felix de Sauvage’               (hybrid of R. caucasicum)

• Broadleaf evergreen shrub, 4-6 ft (1.2-1.8 m), broadly spreading, dense habit.  Leaves to 10 by 5 cm, elliptic, recurved.  Flowers, coral rose with prominent dark blotch (eye), funnel-campanulate, about 6 cm across, frilled at the edge, borne in upright, spherical, tight, clusters (trusses) of 9-15 flowers.
• -5^o F, early middle, 3/3/3, quality rating: [flower / plant & foliage / performance; scale 1 (poor) - 5 (best)]; best in part shade.
• A parent of R. ‘Mrs. G. W. Leak’
• Oregon State Univ. campus: south of Ag. Strand and north of Biddle statue area.