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1968/855  (-5).  small compact shrub, dark green leaves with fawn reverse.  Scarlet, tubular, waxy flowers.  Outstanding selection from Rock expedition seed.

1975/176  Frye:Wales Wood (0).  An excellent species, too seldom seen in forms such as this which combine compact habit, deep green leaves coated with thick, woolly, light-brown indumentum and tubular-campanulate, luminous scarlet blossoms.

haematodes ssp. chaetomallum

Dense and compact evergreen shrubs with bristly young shoots and petioles.  A stunning foliage plant with a thick, pale to dark fawn indumentum below, slightly impressed veins with a persistent silvery indumentum above.  The fleshy flowers are scarlet to crimson or blood-red in mid- to late spring.  Requires excellent drainage and a cool position.  A common and widespread species in the wild where it is found in various montane habitats from 10,000 to 15,000 ft. in NE Upper Burma, NW Yunnan, China and SE Tibet. 

1974/065  Glendoick  (+5).  Developing into a medium-sized compact shrub with bristly hairs covering the stems.  Dense light brown indumentum coat the undersides of the leaves, and thick waxy blood red bells that flower in April.

1975/191  Smith, Cecil  (-5\R1\3).  The FCC form with bright scarlet flowers.  Only a few available.

1975/294  KW#20177:PHET  (-5\R3\3).  Nice bushy plants.

1975/300  R#39:Phetteplace  (-5\R3\3).  Blood-red flowers

1975/306  F#20333:Phetteplace  (-5\R3\3).  Glossy blood-red flowers.

1976/206  KW#21077:RBGE  (-5\R3\3).  Compact growing evergreen shrub with stunning foliage.  The lower surface has a thick fawn indumentum and the upper is silvery.  Blood red flowers in mid-spring.  A choice species requiring excellent drainage and good light but avoiding the hot sun.

1995sd147  RSBG  (0\R2\3).  Seedlings from 77/655 (“var. hemigynum – the AM form from F#25605:Windsor of this natural hybrid (pocophorum x electeum) which is very similar in appearance to and formerly considered to be a variety of chaetomallum) x 75/306 (F#20333:Phetteplace).  These are beautiful foliage plants already.

1997sd311  JN#493:RSBG  (-5\R3\3).  I am excited to offer these beautiful seedlings grown from the first reintroduction of this choice species since 1949.  The seed was collected wild at 12,100 ft. near Weixi on the Mekong/Salween divide in NW Yunnan, China.

1997sd479  JN#489:RSBG  (-5\R3\3).  Stunning foliage with a silvery indumentum and impressed veins above white the undersides are covered with a thick fawn indumentum.  Red flowers in mid- to late spring.  Grown from seed collected wild by Jens Nielsen at 12,000 ft. near Weixi in NE Yunnan, China.  Rare and choice.

2000sd246  JN#1040:RSBG  (-5\R1\3).  These are nice bushy seedlings grown from seed collected wild by Jens Nielsen at 13,000 ft. in NW Yunnan.  Rarely offered plants of known wild provenance (most forms seen in gardens are hybrids).

haematodes ssp. haematodes

Dense and compact evergreen shrubs with densely tomentose young shoots. A free-blooming and easily grown species with attractive foliage and flowers. The leaves have a thick rufous indumentum on the underside. The flowers (late spring to early summer) are scarlet to crimson. Native from 11,000 to 13,000 ft. in W Yunnan, China where it occurs in alpine meadows and Rhododendron thickets.

1970/043  Frye:Wood (-5\R1\3).

1975/145 ROBB  (-5\R1\3).  Bright scarlet flowers on this FCC form.

1975/191  SMI.C (-5).  Flowers bright scarlet in this 1926 award-winning clone.

1977/741  McLaren#S-124:Windsor (0).  A selection of low habit and small, oblong leaves, typical in saturated scarlet flowers and thick indumentum.

1977/742  WGP  (0).  An award form with bright scarlet flowers.  FCC.

1980/118  Hergest Croft (0).

1982/176  HOB:JORG  (-5\R1\3).  Bright red flowers