A colorful flowering shrub with funnel-shaped flowers that bloom in spring, often pink, purple, or white.
From Greek 'azaleos' meaning 'dry,' named because the plant thrives in dry soil. The word entered European languages through scientific Latin in the 1700s.
Azaleas have a sneaky trick—they can live for over 100 years and actually get more beautiful with age, some specimens in Japan are older than the country's oldest temples!
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