Once, serious abnormal heart rhythms or arrhythmia (ah-RITH-me-ah) required open-heart surgery to treat. 1  Fortunately, this is rarely the case today. Thanks to advances in medicines and medical devices, there are now safer and much more comfortable treatment options for abnormal heart rhythms.
Rhododendron /ËroÊdÉËdÉndrÉn/ (from Ancient Greek á¿¥ÏÎ´Î¿Î½ rhÃ³don rose and Î´Î­Î½Î´ÏÎ¿Î½ dÃ©ndron tree) is a genus of 1,024 species of woody plants in the heath family (Ericaceae), either evergreen or deciduous, and found mainly in Asia, although it is also widespread throughout the Southern Highlands of the Appalachian Mountains of North America.
Its difficult to go anywhere in the southern Appalachians and not encounter some species of rhododendrons. Rhododendrons are evergreen members of the azalea family and they are very abundant. Depending on the species and the elevation, they generally bloom from May into July. More info than I could possibly give you is available from the Rhododendron Page at Tyler Arboretum in Media, Pa..