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eclecteum

Large evergreen shrubs with attractive reddish brown to purple-gray flaking bark.  The glabrous oblong-obovate leaves appear almost sessile on their short petioles.  The blossoms generally appear very early in the season but are quite variable in this as well as flower color.  They range from white, pink, rose, purple, salmon, red and yellow, to various shades of each and even bicolored forms.  Often marked with flecks and blotches, sometimes heavily.  Susceptible to powdery mildew which may partially defoliate the plant in severe cases.  Native to Upper Myanmar and China (W Yunnan, SE Xizing and SW Sichuan) in various montane habitats from 10,000 to 14,000 ft. (See Species Profile:  April 1995 Newsletter).

1976/212  R#148:RBG  (+5).  Light pink flowered form with typical rounded leaves and a medium habit.  From a Rock collection.

1993sd339  RSBG  (+5\R2\5).  Seedlings.

1977/735  (eclecteum var. brachyandrum)  KW#5732:WIND  (+5\R2\5).  Flowers magenta-rose (68B) with darker flecks and nectar pouches.

eclecteum var. eclecteum

Shrubs 3 to 10 ft.  Flowers (March) are deep magenta-rose to crimson.  Found on rocky slopes, alpine ridges, among bamboo and on conifer forest margins at 10,000 to 13,000 ft.  China, Burma.

1965/278  Borde Hill  (+5).  A species with great variety in flower color, being white from cream-yellow buds in this form, but consistent character of leaf, the rounded oblong pads nearly abutting the short stout stem on a shrub of medium-sized upright stature.  Flowers white in March-April.

1977/735  (eclecteum var. brachyandrum)  KW#5732:WGP  (+5).  Form with crimson flowers.