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Open-growing evergreen shrubs with smooth and shiny peeling bark. The distinctive glossy leaves are extremely attractive with a heavily puckered (bullate) texture above and a thick tawny indumentum below. The large fragrant flowers appear in late spring and are quite spectacular, ranging in color from white to white flushed pink or pink, sometimes with a yellow blotch. Requires sharp drainage in a protected site. Native over a wide area from India (Sikkim, W Bengal, Arunachal Pradesh) & Bhutan to E Burma and China (Yunnan & S Tibet). Found from 6,000 to 13,000 ft. growing as an epiphyte or on cliffs and rocks in forests. A spectacular species and a favorite of all who grow it. Much hardier than most give it credit for (I’ve had some forms outside for years).

1965/383  Bodnant  (+5\R2\6).  Our hardiest clone, this is the 1946 Award of Merit form (as bullatum).  White flushed deep rose flowers.  A supurb plant for the shaded garden.  Great on a log or stump.

1973/030  (bullatum)  MOSS  (+10\R2\6).  Fragrant flowers white flushed pink.

1984/038  RBG:MCK  (+15).

1988/035  KW#20836:Schick  (+5\R2\5). Beautiful bullate foliage with deep woolly indumentum beneath.  Large fragrant flowers of white flushed pink.  One of the best species in the genus.  Needs good drainage.

1993sd313  YB#9219:RSBG  (+10 to +5\R2\6).  Grown from seed collected in Yunnan.  Beautiful foliage and mostly white flushed pink flowers on the few large seedlings that have bloomed.  These are cutting grown from the original plants.

1995/056  Glendoick (+5?\R2\6). This is one of the FCC forms (as bullatum) which is actually not much better than other “superior” clones that I have seen. 

1995/239  CLD#1430:UCBG  (+5?\R2\6).  Thick, heavily textured leaves with a dense orange-brown indumentum on this outstanding form from the Cang Shan in Yunnan Province, China..

1998sd324  CCHH#8016:RSBG  (+5?\R2\6).  This is a collection we made in 1997 on the famous Shweli/Salween divide on the Yunnan border with Burma.  The plants were growing on an outcropping of boulders rising from the evergreen forest on the very top of the pass at 7,500 ft.  We were immediately struck by the beautiful foliage which possessed the thickest and deepest-colored orange-brown indumentum any of us had ever seen.  Peter Cox noted that it was the finest foliage he had ever seen on an edgeworthii in all of his years in Asia.  Garratt Richardson managed to bloom a seedling this past spring and amazingly, the flowers were also exceptional in size and thick, lustrous texture.  If you grow nothing else in containers you have to grow this plant!

1998sd481  CCHH#8209:RSBG  (+5?\R2\6).  Another 1997 collection from extreme NW Yunnan near the border with SE Tibet at 9,000ft.  These seedlings have a more typical (but still lovely) pale tan indumentum.

BASE#9639  These are grown from our collection of seed in extreme NW Yunnan.  (+5?\R2\6)  RSBG#523sd2000