Legal and Stewardship

Rhododendra was built for the benefit of the rhododendron community and the public. It is intended to be useful today, and to remain usable if stewardship ever needs to pass to another person, society, chapter, or organization.

Photos

New photos accepted by Rhododendra are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence, or CC BY 4.0.

This allows the public to reuse those photos in newsletters, books, websites, journals, nursery labels, educational materials, and similar projects, provided the photographer is properly credited.

Some older photos are marked as Copyright or may not have a clear reuse licence. Those photos may not be reused without permission from the copyright holder.

If you are the photographer or rights holder for a legacy photo on Rhododendra, please contact me. I would be grateful for the chance to clarify attribution and, where possible, release the photo under CC BY 4.0 so it can continue benefiting the community.

Plant Information and Written Content

Rhododendron names, parentage, taxonomy, and identification can be complicated. Rhododendra is a reference tool, not a guarantee of correctness. There is outdated and incorrect information that we are working to address. Please verify important information against authoritative sources before using it for publication, commercial labelling, registration, or scientific work.

Questions

For licensing questions, attribution concerns, corrections, or other requests, please contact me through the Rhododendra contact page.