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TRAILING AZALEA Loiseleuria procumbens (Ericaceae) Creeping. Attractive, low-growing perennial undershrub that forms prostrate mats on acid soils and stony ground on mountain plateaux. FLOWERS are 5mm across, bell-shaped, deeply lobed and pink; either solitary or borne in clusters (May-Jun). FRUITS are capsules. LEAVES are thick, opposite and oblong with down-rolled margins. STATUS-Found mainly in the Scottish Highlands and locally common only in the Cairngorms.
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TRAILING AZALEA Loiseleuria procumbens (Ericaceae) Creeping. Attractive, low-growing perennial undershrub that forms prostrate mats on acid soils and stony ground on mountain plateaux. FLOWERS are 5mm across, bell-shaped, deeply lobed and pink; either solitary or borne in clusters (May-Jun). FRUITS are capsules. LEAVES are thick, opposite and oblong with down-rolled margins. STATUS-Found mainly in the Scottish Highlands and locally common only in the Cairngorms.