View Product Images

Price: No Price Sale Price: No Price Availability: in stock Prod. Code:

glischrum

1976/031  JC  (+5).  A striking species in bristled stems and leaves , hairy below.  Rightfully proud of trusses of rosy-pink.

242sd2001  A large-growing woodland species with stunning hairy and rugose foliage with bristly stems. The pink flowers have a darker blotch and a bristly pedicel. Very attractive plants. These are grown from my collection of seed at 8,500 ft. in extreme NW Yunnan. A beautiful species.

glischrum ssp. rude

Rounded evergreen shrubs with densely bristly-glandular branchlets. The leaves have deeply impressed veins and bristly hairs on the upper surface. The lower surface has a hairy and bristly indumentum. The stunning flowers (mid-spring) are pink to purple-pink and variously marked with deeper red or crimson. A rare but highly sought after species in cultivation. Best in light shade. Native to SE Tibet and NW Yunnan, China where it occurs primarily in forests from 11,000 to 12,000 ft.

B#9810  RSBG (0\R1\4). These are seedlings grown by Warren Berg from a hand-pollinated cross in his own garden. 

1964/150  (rude)  Glenarn:UBC BG (+5).

1966/566  KW#10952:Windsor  (+5).  Soft rose-pink flowers and sparsely hairy leaves and stems yield this species’ character.

1999sd138  RSBG  (0\R1\4).  These are seedlings grown from a hand-pollination here at the RSBG between 1966/566 (KW#10952 from Windsor) x 1964/150 (AM form from Glenarn).