Can anyone identify this flower?

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This bush has sat out by my shed for several years and never seemed to do anything. I've even toyed with the idea of cutting it down.

Went out yesterday, to go in the shed, and wow.....look at my little skinny plant. It bloomed. Called out the wife and she took this pic. We can't identify the flower.
 

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They remind me of the Honeysuckles that used to grow wild near our bungalow when I was a kid, only they were yellow. Could it be a Pink Honeysuckle?
 

Sorry, SB my resident "GreenWoman" says a Honeysuckle is a vine & usually peach or yellow. She insists I correct you or she will never look at another blossom I have a question on. Also they have a very fragrant aroma.
 
Do the flowers look like these to you?

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Son_of_Perdition said:
Sorry, SB my resident "GreenWoman" says a Honeysuckle is a vine & usually peach or yellow. She insists I correct you or she will never look at another blossom I have a question on. Also they have a very fragrant aroma.
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They just reminded me of those, and I was asking SOP, I wasn't sure. So, what kind of flower does she say it is?
 
SeaBreeze said:
They just reminded me of those, and I was asking SOP, I wasn't sure. So, what kind of flower does she say it is?
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I don't have a clue, I know a lupine, rose, columbine and a few others, she said it was definitely an azalea, got a lecture on all sorts of flora and fauna. Got to learn to keep to my own area of knowledge and quit branching out.
 
I think that it looks like an azalea , too. The little leaves that I can see on the bottom of the first picture look like azalea leaves, more than they look like the wider leaves of a rhodie.
If you prune it back after it is done blooming, it should get some new growth with better foliage over the summer. Water it lots !
I had one that looked scraggly, and barely any leaves, pruned it and let it grow for a year, and this year it has pretty little green leaves . By next year it should be loaded with blossoms again.
 
Pappy said:
This bush has sat out by my shed for several years and never seemed to do anything. I've even toyed with the idea of cutting it down.

Went out yesterday, to go in the shed, and wow.....look at my little skinny plant. It bloomed. Called out the wife and she took this pic. We can't identify the flower.
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The he plant is obviously a fostetum majoris whatchacallit.
 
Looks like a wild azalea to me also. They are branchy and do not have as much foliage as a hybrid azalea. The foliage on a rhodendren is leathery. The leaves on this bush are not.
 
Pappy, I have regular azaleas and all around me, in the forest, wild azaleas grow. They look very different from each other. Though the flowers are beautiful, the branches of the wild azalea are bare and spindly, like your shrub. I have tried to transplant some....several times. Unsuccessfully.
 
Azaleas are a type of rhododendrons
[h=3]What is the Difference Between Azaleas and Rhododendrons?[/h] All azaleas are rhododendrons but not all rhododendrons are azaleas. Azaleas have been reclassified and are now in the genus Rhododendron. There are no clear cut lines for distinguishing all azaleas from all rhododendrons but here are a few characteristics to look for.


True rhododendrons have 10 or more stamens which is 2 per lobe. Azaleas usually have 5 stamens or 1 per lobe. Azaleas have 5 lobes in a flower.
Azaleas tend to have appressed hairs which is hair parallel to the surface of the leaf. This is particularly true along the midrib on the underside of the leaf. It is easily seen in "evergreen" azaleas. True rhododendrons instead of hair are often scaly or have small dots on the under side of the leaf. Azalea leaves are never dotted with scales and are frequently pubescent.


Many azaleas are deciduous. True rhodi's are usually evergreen with the exceptions of R. mucronulatum and R. dauricum.
Azaleas have tubular funnel or funnel shaped flowers. Rhodi flowers tend to be bell-shaped.


Note: This information was obtained from:
Dirr, Michael A. 1998. Manual of Woody Landscape Plants. 5th edition. Champaigh, Ilinois: Stipes Publishing.
 

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