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neriiflorum

1965/397  Crarae  (+5).  A selected clone from Scotland of this highly ornamental species with bright red flowers on a medium sized 6 to 8 ft. shrub.

1970/045  WW  (+5).  Bright red flowers are the spring feature of this low shrub with oblong leaves, rich green above and pale glaucous-white below.

1977/748  Farrer#877:Windsor  (+5).  A Burmese variation of the famous red flowered species, differing in smaller leaves and rosier flowers on the medium sized shrub.

neriiflorum ssp. neriiflorum

A variable species ranging from compact and rounded evergreen shrubs to small trees.  Attractive smooth and peeling, pale brown to tannish or red-brown bark.  The leaves are smooth with a glaucous white covering on the underside in most forms.  The tubular bell-shaped flowers (mid-spring) are typically bright red with a thick and lustrous, waxy appearance.  A very free-blooming and easily grown species.  Native over a wide area of W Yunnan and N Burma where it occurs in various habitats from 7,000 to 11,000 ft.

1965/397  Crarae  (+5).  A selected clone from Scotland of this highly ornamental species with bright red flowers on a medium sized 6 to 8 ft. shrub.

1974/025  'Rosevallon'  CAE:FR  (0).  There is still debate whether this is a true species or not, although some growers say it does come true from seed.  Bright red flowers and a striking purplish-red underleaf.

1974/084  FR  (+5).  A typically red, free-flowering form of this upright medium to large shrub with smooth leaves pale green above and glaucous underneath.

1974/086  (euchaites)  HUEY  (0 or -5?).  Flowers red.

1979/790  Larson:Walker  (+5).  The usual flower and foliage for the species.  Among the best landscape plants for brilliant color from an early age on.  A plant of interesting character.

1983/110  ADM  (+10).

1998sd488  CCHH#8220:RSBG  (0\R1\4). Compact shrubs with smooth and peeling bark.  The leaves have a pure white glaucous coating beneath.  The waxy, bright red, bell-shaped flowers appear in mid-spring.  These are grown from my collection of seed at 10,600 ft. on the Cang Shan of W Yunnan, China.  Easy and floriferous.

neriiflorum ssp. phaedropum

This differs from subspecies neriiflorum in the longer and more narrow leaves as well as in bearing glands on the ovary, calyx and pedicle (ssp. neriiflorum lacks these glands).  This subspecies is native primarily to the west of ssp. neriiflorum  occurring from NW Yunnan west into N Burma, NE India (Arunachal Pradesh), SE Tibet and central Bhutan.  It is found in mountain forests from 6,500 to 11,000 ft.  Quite rare in cultivation.

1998sd404  CCHH#8125:RSBG  (+5\R1\4).  Longer and more narrow leaves than typical  neriiflorum and very similar to the closely related floccigerum but with no indumentum on the lower surface of the leaves.  Bell-shaped flowers in mid-spring (probably reddish to orange-red).Grown from my collection of seed at 8,750 ft. near the border with Burma in NW Yunnan.  A very rare species in cultivation.  The leaves can become quite large and long.

2000sd566  BASE#9718:RSBG  (+5\R1\4).  Grown from my collection of seed at 10,000 ft. on the Ziben Shan of W Yunnan near the border with Burma.  Large elliptic leaves, rounded on the ends.  These are near subspecies neriiflorum but have glandular petioles and much larger leaves.  These are quite different in appearance from the form we sold two years ago that were closer to R. flocciferum.  Attractive reddish-brown indumentum on the new leaves.