Upright-growing evergreen shrubs or small trees with a dense covering of rusty brown to fawn tomentum on the branchlets.  The undersides of the leaves are covered with a thin and felted rusty brown indumentum.  The bell-shaped flowers (mid-spring) are cream to pale yellow or pale pink, with reddish spots.  This stunning foliage plant is closely related to the well-known but difficult R. lanatum and was formerly taxonomically lumped into it.  It has proven to be much easier to grow than its cousin and should be a great plant for the woodland garden.  Known only from Bhutan where it occurs in forests and on cliffs from 10,000 to 13,400 ft.

1994/079  BB#8817:Berg  (0\R1\4).  This clone was grown from seed collected wild by Warren Berg at 13,500 ft. on the Rudong La, Bhutan, from a plant with “pink flowers