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Large rounded evergreen shrubs with distinctive, beautiful foliage.  The dark glossy green leaves have deeply impressed veins on the upper surface which the underside has a thick pale to reddish brown indumentum.  The bell-shaped flowers (mid-spring) are white to pink with red flecks and a crimson blotch.  An easily grown and superb foliage plant.  Native to W Sichuan, China where it occurs in forests and on rocky slopes and cliffs from 8,000 to 11,000 ft.

1975/017  HIL  (-5).  White flowers from pink buds.

1975/088  Exbury  (0-5\R1\4).  White flushed rose flowers with crimson flecks on this 1957 Award of Merit form.

1975/148  FR  (H4).  Relatively large leaved form of this Sichuan native.

1975/326  GRE:CHP  (-5).

1976/066  Berg  (-5\R1\4).  Beautiful glossy leaves with deeply impressed veins.  A rounded shrub with white-flushed rose flowers in mid-spring.  One of the finest species in the genus for foliage effect.

1976/116  J. Caperci  (-5).

1976/387  CHP  (-5).  An Award of Merit form of this Sichuan native.

1978/060  Greig:CHP  (-5).  Delicately soft pink flowers, spotted red, and white felted new growth add special springtime appeal to this handsomely foliaged shrub.

1993sd311  SB#9215:RSBG  (+5?\R1\4).  Grown from seed collected in Sichuan (as coeloneuron).  Absolutely beautiful foliage on these seedlings.  A rare opportunity for foliage enthusiasts.