作者身份与从业经历
挪威 Ole Jonny Larsen 是位于挪威西海岸 Ålesund 自治市 Spjelkavik 地区的退休国民学校教师，长期在公立中学讲授语言、文学与历史课程；同时他也是欧洲最活跃的杜鹃花属（Rhododendron）物种业余收藏家之一，依托自家约 1.7 亩（合 1 700 m²）临海花园，与合伙人 Kari Wiik 共同维护着 400 余个野生杜鹃物种的活体收藏，被公认为挪威规模最大的私人杜鹃花属收藏之一。
学术写作与专业贡献
Larsen 在挪威、丹麦、瑞典三国的杜鹃花专业期刊长期撰稿，并向英国皇家园艺学会（RHS）杜鹃花、木兰与山茶组（Rhododendron, Magnolia and Camellia Group）、美国杜鹃花协会（ARS）会刊及美国杜鹃花属基金会（Rhododendron Species Foundation）投稿，已累计在上述机构年鉴与学术季刊发表文章 30 余篇；同时他是 ARS 种子交换委员会与杜鹃花属基金会的欧洲代表成员，参与国际保育网络的种子资源调度。
出版专著与考察活动
他先后以挪威语出版《伟大的植物猎人》（2008）、《杜鹃花在挪威》（2011）、《在挪威栽培大型杜鹃》（2017）、《斯卡尔伯维卡六十年代》等六部专著，并主编了《我的杜鹃花园——29 位挪威杜鹃花收藏者合集》（2014）一书。自 2010 年起他三次赴中国云南与四川参加植物考察：2010 年与 2013 年的 Scandinavian Biluoxueshan & Baima Shan 云南跨省考察、2016 年 Central Sichuan 川西贡嘎山区考察，期间发现并描述了一种前所未有的玫红色 Rhododendron roxieanum 变体。
园艺服务与社区网络
他每年通过邮寄与本地两种方式向欧洲爱好者销售约 1 000 株实生苗杜鹃，主要为野生种；他还与 Ålesund 周边三位资深爱好者 Egil Valderhaug、Knut Grebstad、Trond Egil Jordal 组成「Rhodogjengen」小型交流网络，定期在挪威国内外进行互访、植株交换与野外考察，2024 年又推出新增 100 余物种的《Rhododendron i Norge》大幅扩展版专著，进一步巩固了挪威杜鹃花属引种与文化保育领域的核心地位。
Author Background and Career
Ole Jonny Larsen is a retired Norwegian state-school teacher based in Spjelkavik, Ålesund municipality on Norway’s western coast, where he taught language, literature and history at public secondary level for decades. He and partner Kari Wiik curate roughly 400 wild Rhododendron species in a coastal home garden of about 1 700 m², a collection routinely cited as one of the largest private Rhododendron holdings in Norway.
Scholarly Writing and International Network
Larsen is a long-standing contributor to Norwegian, Danish and Swedish Rhododendron journals and has published more than thirty articles in the yearbooks and bulletins of the Royal Horticultural Society Rhododendron, Magnolia and Camellia Group (UK), the American Rhododendron Society Journal and the Rhododendron Species Foundation (USA). He also represents Europe on the ARS seed-exchange committee, helping coordinate conservation seed flow across the international community.
Books and Botanical Expeditions
His Norwegian-language books include The Great Plant Hunters (2008), Rhododendron in Norway (2011), Large-leaved Rhododendron in Norway (2017) and Skarbøvika in the 1960s, and he edited the 2014 compendium My Rhododendron Garden presenting 29 Norwegian collections. He joined three plant-hunting trips to China’s Yunnan and Sichuan provinces — the 2010 and 2013 Scandinavian Biluoxueshan & Baima Shan expeditions and the 2016 Central Sichuan Gongga massif trek — during which he documented a previously undescribed rose-pink variant of Rhododendron roxieanum.
Plant Sales and the Rhodogjengen Network
He mails roughly 1 000 seed-grown Rhododendron seedlings to European customers each year and sells additional species locally by appointment. He is also a founding member of Rhodogjengen, a four-person circle of Norwegian Rhododendron enthusiasts in the Ålesund region that meets several times a year to share plants, visit collections and run joint field trips. His 2024 expanded edition of Rhododendron i Norge documents more than 450 species and remains a central reference for Norwegian Rhododendron culture and conservation.
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