Free Vireya Rhododendron Talk + Door Prize (Atherton)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

There is a type of rhododendron which makes a superb container plant, and even performs greatly when pot bound, since many species are epiphytes in nature.

https://growplumeriafrangipani.blogspot.com/2011/04/tropical-rhododendron-vireya.html

These are vireya rhododendrons.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v32n1/v32n1-leach.htm

https://rhododendron.org/vireya/index.html

https://rhododendron.org/vireya/gallery.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/StevensNRBGE85.pdf

 https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/CallardRSF2011.pdf

 https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/history.htm

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v46n1/v46n1-moynier.htm

Many vireya hybrids were created in the Bay Area, especially at the San Francisco Botanical Garden which was the Strybing Arboretum.

https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/JARS/v45n1/v45n1-morebeck.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/VV/VV75-0505.pdf

In the Bay Area, vireyas can be seen at the Southeast Asia Cloud Forest area of the San Francisco Botanical Garden, at Peter Sullivan’s Vireya Garden at St. John the Evangelist Church, 65 St. Marys Avenue, San Francisco, the Vireya Garden of the Gardens at Lake Merritt in Oakland, and at the Australasia area of the University of California Botanical Garden.

On Wednesday  January 21, 2025 at 4 PM, at the Legallet Residence, 88 Selby Lane, Atherton 94027, the De Anza Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society shall have a program by Christy Hatrsell on vireya rhododendrons.

Christy, who lives in Palo Alto, grows several hundred vireyas in containers.

https://eurekarhody.org/newsletters/2023/2023%20Eureka%20Chapter%20Newsletter%20-%20January.pdf

https://www.rhododendron.org/vireya/archive/VV/VV73-0904.pdf

For further information please go to  https://www.deanza-ars.com/

There shall be a vireya given away as a door prize.

For information about joining the De Anza Chapter please come to the meeting or go to

https://www.rhododendron.org/membership.htm

https://www.rhododendron.org/

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