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Upright-growing but compact evergreen shrubs with shiny dark green leaves, glaucous beneath.  The flowers (mid-spring) are greenish yellow to pale yellow and widely funnel-shaped. Closely related to R. triflorum but with a more compact habit and lacking an indumentum on the outer surface of the corolla. An attractive and hardy yellow-flowered lepidote, quite easy in cultivation. Native to W Sichuan, China where it grows in a wide variety of montane habitats from 8,500 to 14,000 ft.

1965/412  Borde Hill  (-5).  A relatively hardy and late-flowered yellow Triflorum, providing light yellow, tinged green color flowers at the height of the bloom season.

1976/378  Brodick:UBC BG  (-5).  Relatively hardy and later flowering.  Providing light yellow tinged green flowers at the height of the bloom season.

1980/108  'June Banks'  HER  (-5).  An award form with yellow flowers.  AM 1976.

1982/156  CBG:BIR  (-5).  Flowers yellow with green spots.

1982/182  KR#139:JORG  (-10\R1\6).  A clone with large yellow flowers and yellow-green spots grown from seed collected on Emei Shan (Mt. Omei) in Sichuan.

1982/183  (chengshienianum)  KR#195:TJ  (-5).  Another wild collected form from Mt. Omei in China.

1990/053  Berg  (-10\R1\6).  This clone grown from seed collected at around 10,000 Ft. by Arp Hansen on the famous Emei Shan in Sichuan

1990/058  Berg (-10\R1\6).  This clone grown from seed collected wild at 10,000 ft. on Emei Shan (Mt. Omei), Sichuan, China.  I have not recorded flower data on this clone.

1996sd396  SEH#047:RSBG  (-10\R1\6).  Grown from seed collected at 11,500 ft. in the Dalou Shan of S Sichuan, China. Greenish yellow to pale yellow flowers in mid-spring. Very attractive foliage, collected from a very exposed slope.

 Photo Hans Eiberg