Vigorous, large and open-growing evergreen shrubs with hairy leaves.This new species to cultivation has unusual flowers in mid-spring with a long narrow tube and flaring lobes.They emerge cream with pale pink stripes, changing to pure white with a green-gold blotch in the throat.Requires excellent drainage.Only recently collected (in the early 1990’s) by Keith Rushforth who found it in Vietnam.An exciting and distinctive new species for the collector
1996/040KR#3286:Millais(+15\R2\6).A vigorous new maddenia in cultivation with unusual long and narrowly tubular flowers in mid-spring.These have flaring lobes and emerge with pale rose stripes before fading to pure white with a green-gold blotch in the throat.Requires excellent drainage.Smooth and peeling bark. This clone from seed collected in Vietnam.