Rhododendron can be evergreen or deciduous shrubs or trees, with simple leaves, sometimes with a dense colourful indumentum of hairs on the lower side, and funnel-shaped, bell-shaped or tubular flowers that may be solitary or in short racemes
'Loderi Venus' is a large evergreen shrub with long leaves and tall trusses of lily-like, scented flowers 12cm in width, opening pale pink from deeper buds, soon fading to near white, from late spring to early summer