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Upright and open-growing evergreen shrubs with hairy branchlets. The attractive leaves are heavily bullate (deep and prominent veining) with hairs on the margins. The unique flowers (mid- to late spring) are tubular in shape and held upright on the stems. They range in color from orange to pink, reddish orange or crimson with protruding stamens and style. An unusual species with extremely “unrhododendron-like” flowers. Suitable for planting in hot and dry situations. Native to Yunnan and S Sichuan, China where it occurs in dry pine forests and thickets from 5,500 to 8,500 ft.

1969/834  DUN:WAL  (+5?\R1\4).  Vermilion flowers.

1984/058  ‘Blackwater’  Brodick  (+5\R1\4).  The 1977 Award of Merit form with red flowers.

1987/012  SBEC  (+10).

1987/014  SBEC  (+10).

1993sd096  (+5 or 0?).  Seedlings from seed collected at 7,200 ft. along the Old Burma Rd. in Yunnan China

1998sd308  CCHH#8000:RSBG  (+5\R1\4).  Quite a distinct species with bullate hairy leaves and upright clusters of tubular red to orange or pink flowers in mid-spring.  Tolerant of hot and dry situations but quite happy under normal rhody garden conditions.  Grown from my collection of seed at 7,600 ft. in NW Yunnan, China.