Large trees to 60 ft.Leaves very large (up to 18 inches in length) with a gray to fawn indumentum beneath.Flowers (late winter to mid-spring) are pale to deep rose, rich purple or deep reddish purple, with up to 30 per inflorescence.Native to mixed rain forest from 5,000 to 8,000 ft. in NE Upper Mayanmar and adjacent W Yunnan, China.
1981/080CH:LP(H2-3.
1993sd336(+10?).These are grown from a packet of old seed which was found in the refrigerator 3 years ago.There was no source, just the designation “magnificum h. p.”It is assumed they are hand-pollinated from a reliable source but we can make no guarantees.
240sd2002A rare and massive big-leaf species closely related to protisitum. The similar large leaves develop their thin indumentum at a much younger age than that species and the flowers also appear much sooner in its long life. The large flowers (early spring) range in color from rose to deep reddish-purple. These seedlings are grown from a hand-pollinated cross here in the RSBG between two good pink forms from Brodick. Rarely offered, almost all of the plants that I have seen in gardens are mis-named hybrids. (+15\R1\7)
