Compact rounded evergreen shrubs or small trees with attractive peeling reddish bark.The flowers (early to mid-spring) are scarlet to blood-red or crimson, with darker nectar pouches.The leaves have a thick fawn to dark brown indumentum on the underside.Native to the eastern Himalayas where it is found in various montane habitats from 10,000 to 14,000 ft.
1964/080RBG(0).A compact plant, especially this form, with small three-inch almost round leaves coated densely below with fawn indumentum, tight trusses of bright red, and peeling red-maroon bark.
1975/065WAK(0).Bright crimson flowers in early spring.
