Densely growing low to upright evergreen shrubs with tomentose branchlets.  The leaves have a thin brown to which indumentum on the undersurface.  The bell-shaped flowers (mid-spring) are rose-pink to magenta or carmine.  A uniquely colored and free-flowering species seldom seen in cultivation.  Rarely available and quite attractive in bloom.  Native to a wide variety of habitats from 11,000 to 14,000 ft. in China (SE Tibet and NW Yunnan).

1976/025  GLE  (-5\R1\3).  Rose-magenta flowers with a bluish tint in this 1960 AM Form.

1976/174  R#59483:RBG  (+5).