longipes               

Exciting new species to cultivation.  Upright and bushy evergreen shrubs with long and narrow lanceolate leaves.  The leaves are covered on the lower surface with a thin pale brown indumentum and have an acuminate apex.  The flowers (mid-spring?) are pale pink to rose or purple and may have spots.  This is an exciting new introduction which is quite floriferous and beautiful as seen in Chinese manuals and should prove to be an excellent new species for the garden and the collector.  Native to forests and cliffs from 4,500 to 8,250 ft. in China (S Sichuan, NE Yunnan and Guizhou).

1996sd457  SEH#119:RSBG  (0\R1\5). New species to cultivation.  Long and narrow leaves with a pale brown indumentum.  The flowers are pale pink to rose or purplish.  Very dense and bushy rounded habit.  My own collection from around 9,000 ft. in S Sichuan, China.  Forms a very well-shaped bush.  Should be very long-lived and seems to be quite easy to please.  Very easy and attractive in light shade.

longipes var. chienianum 

New species to cultivation.  This forms a bushy evergreen shrub with long and narrow lanceolate leaves.  The lower leaf surface is covered with a pale brown indumentum.  The flowers (mid-spring?) are pale pink to rose or purplish and may have spots.  This is anexciting new introduction which is quite floriferous and beautiful as seen in Chinese manuals.  It should prove to be an excellent specimen in the garden, forming a perfectly round and mounded well-branched shrub, even as a young plant.  Native to forests and cliffs from 4,500 to 9,000 (?) ft. in China (S Sichuan, NE Yunnan and N Guizhou).

2000sd290  AC#4244:RSBG  (0\R1\5).  These are grown from seed collected wild by Alan Clark at 7,200 ft. in SE Sichuan, China.