Compact evergreen shrubs with splendid pale rose to deep crimson flowers in mid-spring.The leaves are dark green with heavily-impressed veins above and a dense cinnamon to buff indumentum beneath.This species blooms at an earlier age and is usually easier in cultivation than most of its relatives in subsection Neriiflora. An attractive species at its best in partial shade. Native to China (NW Yunnan and SE Tibet) where it grows in open pine forests, bamboo groves, and on boulder strewn slopes from 12,000 to 14,000 ft.
1968/212 (“gymnocarpum”)Exbury (-5\R1\3). Rich deep crimson flowers on this 1940 Award of Merit clone.
