Rhododendron occidentale (Western Azalea) Supports Mammals This is an excellent plant

This is an excellent plant for food forests

rapidly-draining soil

meaning it has female and male flowers on separate plants

Fruit is intensely bitter

White or pale pink

Rhododendron occidentale (Western Azalea) Supports Mammals This is an excellent plantPlant Description: A small to medium sized shrub with many slender branches and a beautiful, lacey silhouette. Glossy green leaves are oblong with entire leaf margins. Western azalea is deciduous and, in the autumn, leaves turn yellow, scarlet, or crimson before dropping. White or pale pink, extremely fragrant flowers grow in corymbs (clusters) of 5 20 and have five showy petals with the uppermost splashed with orange on the inside, signaling