The shapes.

The shapes.

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This classification, my own, allows one to have an idea about the future shape of a plant.
Actually it is very important to know which way a rhododendron grows in order to know where to plant it and above all where NOT TO PLANT IT.

¤ GROUP #1 >>> Higher than wide.

A rhododendron of this group knows only one direction : the sky. The new growths are nearly at the vertical. They diverge about thirty degrees at most.
This rhododendron is of the arboreal type.