Large upright shrubs or small trees.The attractive leaves are elliptic to oblanceolate in shape with a dark glossy green upper surface and a fawn to orange-brown indumentum beneath.The flowers (early spring) are white to pink and usually blotched.This species is somewhat reminiscent of a smaller version of the popular big-leaf species R. rex ssp. fictolacteum.Beautiful large leaves and attractive flowers on a long-lived plant.Perfect in the woodland garden.Native to W Yunnan and adjacent regions of N Burma and SE Tibet.Occurs in forests from 8,250 to 14,750 ft.
GR#9213RSBG(-5\R1\4).A tree-like shrub with great foliage and showy white to pink flowers in early spring.These are grown from seed collected wild by Garratt Richardson in China.These large seedlings appear to be ssp. fulvoidesI.Nice large leaves.
1964/048Sunningdale:M. Walker(0).While the white to pink flowers of this large shrub species are a beautiful display in April, its greatest garden value is the cinnamon glow produced by leaf indumentum and peeling stems and trunk.
1964/122Leonardslee(0).While the white to pink flowers of this large shrub species are a beautiful display in April, its greatest garden value is the cinnamon-orange flow produced by leaf indumentum and peeling stems and trunk.
1964/156CRA (0).Flowers pink with a maroon blotch.
1980/079SUN:CAS(0).White flowers.
1993sd332BERG(0).Seedlings from seed collected in the wild.
1998sd413CCHH#8136:RSBG(-5\R1\4).Beautiful foliage on these seedlings grown from my collection of seed at 10,200 ft. in extreme NW Yunnan, China.The plants in this area were intermediate between ssp. fulvum and ssp. fulvoides.
fulvum ssp. fulvoides
This subspecies has a paler fawn to brownish indumentum.White to pink flowers in early to mid-spring with a blotch.A long-lived species for the woodland or shaded garden.
1997sd482JN#296:RSBG(-5\R1\5).These are grown from seed collected wild by Jens Nielsen at 11,800 ft. near Weixi in NW Yunnan, China.
