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Large rounded evergreen shrubs with pale tomentose branches.  The dark and shiny leaves have a woolly whitish to fawn indumentum on their undersides.  The flowers emerge from the most amazing-looking large buds in early spring.  The fuzzy overlapping scales of the buds give the appearance of some strange small pineapple and provide a great show as they open to reveal a large rounded inflorescence of brightly colored flowers.  The flowers range in color from pink to red or crimson and have darker nectar pouches.  This species is known only from Pemako in SE Tibet and adjacent NE India where it occurs in forests from 8,500 to 11,000 ft.  It requires light shade to avoid sun scorch on the foliage.

1966/556  'Silvia'  LOG  (=5).  An Award of Merit form (1954) with large rounded trusses generously filled with an average of 30 crimson-pink suffused white flowers.

1966/615  KW#8251:RBG Edinburgh  (+5).  The “type form” of the species and the first to flower in late winter with rose-pink flowers.

1975/113  ‘Chapel Wood’  R#18407A(03913A):Windsor  (=5).  A doubly honored clone with up to fifty flowers per truss.  FCC.

1975/114  ‘Round Wood’  KW#6251:Windsor  (+5).  A somewhat later blooming Windsor Great Park plant with crimson flowers.  AM 1951.

1977/167  WEB  (H4).

1979/113  KW#6258:BH  (+5).

Berg  (0\R1\4).  These are plants donated by Warren Berg that were grown from seed produced by a controlled pollination of a fine form with deep rose-pink (“almost red”) flowers in his own collection.  Rarely offered beautiful species.