Book ID: 114056
Li Desheng
Chinese Azalea in Edinburgh Royal Botanical Garden. 2021. illus. 316 p. gr8vo. Hardcover. - Chinese, with Latin nomenclature.
Chinese Azalea are an important plant group and conservation flagship species in the world, and an iconic part of China's flora. but. Twenty-five percent of the world's rhododendron plants are threatened with extinction, a figure that shows the overall threat to global plant diversity.
Covering 150 species of Chinese rhododendrons, this illustrated book reflects over a century of collaboration between Chinese and Scottish botanists. The Royal Botanic Gardens of Edinburgh (RBGE) has carried out the most extensive collection of rhododendrons in the world, with a total of more than 600 kinds of rhododendrons, accounting for about two-thirds of the total number of rhododendrons in the world, most of which are from China.