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falconeri

1974/006  Fred Robbins  (+10).  A grand, bold plant of foot and a half leaves and m any-flowered trusses of cream-yellow fluted balls.

1975/124  RBG Edinburgh  (+5).  Not the handsomest, but a somewhat hardier form of this large-leaved species surviving at Edinburgh.  This plant is characterized, too, by a more persistent coating of brownish hairs atop the leaves and pink-tinged buds opening to cream flowers.

falconeri ssp. eximium

Trees 10 to 30 ft.  Flowers (April-May) are pink to rose with darker tips.  Limited distribution in the wild.  Found in moist shady mixed forests at 9,000 to 11,000 ft.  India.

1977/738  (eximium)  WGP  (+10).

556sd2003  KCSH#0358  One of the rarest of the big-leaf species in cultivation, this taxon has only been collected a few times since it was first found over 150 years ago. Stunning heavily indumented foliage, the deep cinnamon indumentum persists even on the upper leaf surface, very attractive. Smooth peeling bark and rose to pink flowers. Grown from our collection of seed at 10,500 ft. in W Arunachal Pradesh, India. The real thing, these will be best in light shade. Rarely offered species – one of the finest foliage plants in the genus. These vigorous seedlings already have beautifully indumented leaves.

falconeri ssp. falconeri

Large evergreen shrubs or small trees, up to 80 ft. in the wild. The magnificent large leaves are rugose on the upper surface with a dense woolly red-brown to brownish indumentum on the lower and can be up to one foot in length. The flowers (mid- to late spring) are bell-shaped in a large dense rounded inflorescence. They range in color from white to cream or pale yellow and have a purplish blotch. An outstanding ornamental plant, one of the finest of the “big-leafed” species. The flowers of this species are among the longest lasting in the genus. Best in a woodland situation or light shade. Native to the eastern Himalaya where it occurs in forests from 9,000 to 11,000 ft.

1975/250  WEB  (+15).

1997sd504  SEH#517:RSBG  (+5\R1\5).  My own collection from 10,500 ft. in the West Bengal, Indian Himalaya.  Many, if not most of the R. falconeri I have seen in gardens are actually garden origin hybrids.    The real thing.  Distinctive and beautiful foliage on these seedlings.  NOTE:  Comparable plants of other SEH# collections of this species from the same area will be substituted if necessary.

1997sd510  SEH#524:RSBG  (+5\R1\5).  My own collection from 10,100 ft. in the Sikkim Himalaya.  Many, if not most of the R. falconeri I have seen in gardens and collections are actually garden origin hybrids.  To quote Cox “one of the grandest of the genus.  A large-growing big leafed species with magnificent deeply veined foliage and red-brown indumentum.  The fleshy long-lasting flowers are white to cream or yellow and have a purple basal blotch.  The real thing.  Distinctive and beautiful foliage on these seedlings.  NOTE:  Comparable plants of other SEH# collections of this species from the same area will be substituted if necessary.  Nice large plants.

1997sd663  SEH#519:RSBG  (+5\R1\5).  Grown from my collection of seed at 9,875 ft. in the West Bengal, Indian Himalaya.