Morphology and flower pigments of wild evergreen azaleas (Rhododendron sataense Nakai) in Southern Kyushu

Journal of the Japanese Society for Horticultural Science

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 385-391

  Miyajima, Ikuo ^a   Uemoto, Shunpei ^a,c   Sakata, Yusuke ^b   Arisumi, Ken Ichi ^b,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Oita Junior College   (Japan)

^d NONE   (Japan)

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