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There are several different types of both flower and leaf shapes for Azaleas. Ventricose-campanulate, flat saucer shaped, widely funnel shaped, openly funnel shaped, campanulate, openly campanulate, tubular, rotate, tubular funnel shaped and funnel shaped are the different types or shaped of the flower itself. The flowers come in all different colors. For leaves there are linear, oblong, obovate, orbiculare, elliptic, ovate, lanceolate, and obanceolate. <ref name=Greer> [Greer's Guidebook to Available Rhododendrons third edition] Harlold Greer, Offshoot publications, 1996.</ref> | There are several different types of both flower and leaf shapes for Azaleas. Ventricose-campanulate, flat saucer shaped, widely funnel shaped, openly funnel shaped, campanulate, openly campanulate, tubular, rotate, tubular funnel shaped and funnel shaped are the different types or shaped of the flower itself. The flowers come in all different colors. For leaves there are linear, oblong, obovate, orbiculare, elliptic, ovate, lanceolate, and obanceolate. <ref name=Greer> [Greer's Guidebook to Available Rhododendrons third edition] Harlold Greer, Offshoot publications, 1996.</ref> | ||
There are only five lobes to the flower on Azaleas. They only have one stamen for each lobe. The Azalea usually has hair that grows parallel to the suface of the leaf, this is called appressed hairs. | There are only five lobes to the flower on Azaleas. They only have one stamen for each lobe. The Azalea usually has hair that grows parallel to the suface of the leaf, this is called appressed hairs.<ref name=Greer/> | ||
== Reproduction == | == Reproduction == | ||
