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forrestii

Omitted from the new classification, a close relative of R. forrestii ssp. papillatum.  Dwarf creeping shrubs, rarely over 6".  Flowers (April) are crimson bells with larger leaves than other subspecies.  Found at 11,000 to 13,000 ft.  China.

1964/227  ‘Scarlet Runner’  (0).  Bright red 2 and 3 flowered trusses produced by a vigorously creeping dwarf.

1970/175  R#11169:Gorer  (H4). 

1974/012  R#59174:Windsor  (0).  A small-leaved little turtle-shaped plant, creeping at the edges with disproportionately  large red bells in April.

1975/044  R#59174:Nymens  (0).  A small-leaved little turtle-shaped plant, creeping at the edges with disproportionately large red bells in April.

1976/146  Windsor  (0).  Selected at Tower Court as the most free flowering of this spreading dwarf, 10” high and three ft. wide after twenty years.  FCC.

1978/090    Exbury:CHP  (0).

forrestii ssp. forrestii

Dwarf prostrate and creeping evergreen shrublets rarely more than 6 inches high. The exquisite bell-shaped flowers (mid-spring) are crimson to scarlet and quite large in scale with the attractive foliage. A beautiful alpine species with heavily-veined, rounded to ovate foliage. Requires excellent drainage and a cool but open position such as a north-facing slope. Found in dense alpine thickets and on boulders and cliffs from 10,000 to 15,000 ft. in NE Burma, E Arunachal Pradesh and SW China (NW Yunnan and SE Tibet).

1970/030  FR  (H4).  Dwarf creeping form of this attractive species with deep red flowers.

1975/263  Greig  (-5\R2-3\1 foot across).  Bright red flowers on this floriferous clone.

1976/175 (Tumescens Group)  R#11169(USDA#59174):USDA (-5\R2\1). Red flowers on this mounding form which is close to chamaethomsonii. 

1976/373  KW#:Berg  (-5\R2\1).  A fine form with large scarlet flowers and a prostrate but mounding habit.

1983/106  A. deMezey  (0).  Prostrate spreading shrub to 6”.  Flowers are a very lovely blood red.

1993sd295  EGM#228:RSBG  (-5\R2\1).  These are cutting-grown plants from the original group of seedlings planted in the RSBG.  These are among the finest forms of this species that I have seen, with many bearing clusters of three, four or even five deep red flowers.  Typical high alpine, low and creeping form collected as seed by Ted Millais at 14,000 ft. on the Mekong/Salween divide in NW Yunnan.  Some variation.

forrestii ssp. papillatum

1970/175  (syn. forrestii. var. tumescens)  R#11169(59174):GOR  (0). Crimson flowers.

1980/116  (Tumescens Group)  Hergest-Croft  (-5\R2\1).  A more mounded and dome-shaped habit on this form of an always attractive species.  Large deep red bell-shaped flowers in mid-spring.  Very nice plants.