Rhododendron adamsii Rehder is a plant in the Ericaceae family, order Ericales, kingdom Plantae. Not known to be toxic.

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Rhododendron adamsii Rehder

Rhododendron adamsii Rehder

Rhododendron adamsii is a flowering Rhododendron species used to make herbal tea, native to parts of Russia and Mongolia.

Family
Genus
Rhododendron
Order
Ericales
Class
Magnoliopsida

About Rhododendron adamsii Rehder

Rhododendron adamsii Rehder is a flowering plant species that belongs to the genus Rhododendron. It has been cultivated at the Moscow Botanical Garden of Academy of Sciences since 1964. In the Buryat language, this species is called sagaan dali (сагаан дали) and is used to make a specific type of herbal tea. This plant is distributed across Eastern Siberia, Yakutia, Transbaikalia, and Mongolia. In the Russian Far East, it grows on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, on the Schmidt Peninsula of Sakhalin, and in the upper reaches of the Selemdzha and Bureya rivers.

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Taxonomy

Plantae Tracheophyta Magnoliopsida Ericales Ericaceae Rhododendron

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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