Swamp Honeysuckle; White Azalea ( Rhododen¬ 
dron viscosum) is a most beautiful swamp shrub with 
handsome, fragrant, white flowers. In low, wet swamps 
it is very common and blooms very profusely during 
June and July. The bush is from 3 to 8 feet in height 
and very branchy. The leaves are long-oval, broadest 
towards the blunt-pointed tip and narrowing to short 
stems. 
The beautiful flowers are pure white, or rarely tinged 
with pink; the tube of the long corolla is covered with 
very sticky, brownish hairs, and terminates in five, 
large, pointed, spreading lobes. The stamens are very 
long, slender and white, and tipped with yellow anthers. 
The five-pointed calyx is very small and inconspicuous. 
During the early time of their bloom, all the Azaleas 
bear, hanging among the fragrant flowers, peculiar, juicy, 
pulpy growths that are edible, as any well bred farmer’s 
boy knows; he calls them May or Swamp Apples, but 
they are really modified buds and not fungus growths 
or caused by insects, as was formerly believed. These 
beautiful Azaleas are found from Me. to Ohio and 
southwards. 
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