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Large, vigorously upright-growing evergreen to sometimes deciduous shrubs.  The attractive, widely funnel-shaped flowers are sometimes fragrant and extremely variable in color.  They are borne profusely every year and range from white to pink or lavender, typically with red, green or yellow spots and/or a blotch.  Easily grown, floriferous and quite tolerant of most garden conditions including drought once established.  Very common and widespread in the wild where it is found from 3,000 to 14,000 ft. in a wide range of habitats.  Native to China (N Yunnan, SW Sichuan, Guizhou), Burma and SE Tibet.

1970/333  FOR  (0).  Form with white flowers accented with orange spotting.

1976/131  F#16790::RBG  (0).  A Forrest collection from his 1917-19 expedition.

1980/005  Castle Howard  (+10).  Selected from seed collected by G. Forrest in China.

1980/033  'Sonata'  BM  (0\R1\8).  White flowers flushed rose with red-gold flecks.  Vigorous and popular species.  Common, widespread and variable in the wild.

1982/107  Bremen R.P.:Goteborg BG  (+10).

1983/111  ADM  (0).  Lavender-pink flowers.

1989sd073  RSBG  (0 to +10\R1\8).  Large seedlings from seed collected in Yunnan, China by the Nanjing Botanical Garden.  Flowers pink to white.  Large plants; many with flower buds.

1996sd511  SEH#182:RSBG  (0\R1\6).  Widespread and variable species with an upright habit.  The flowers appear in mid-spring and range in color from white to rose-purple or lavender, usually with a blotch.  An adaptable and tough species which is very attractive and floriferous.  Grown from my collection of seed at 9,200 ft. in NE Yunnan, China.