Evergreen shrubs with distinctive ovate leaves appearing in almost sessile whorls around the stem.The flowers are also quite unique in both shape and color.They are yellow on the curved tube and orange or red on the lobes.One of the most charming and easily identified vireyas in cultivation.A widespread, typically epiphytic species native to New Guinea where it occurs from 3,900 to 9,850 ft.Often incorrectly spelled christii.
1979/031Wei#1500:Pratt:EWS(+32).Tropical rhododendron with curved flowers, cherry-red on the lobes and a yellow-green tube.
1983/055Schick(+32\R2\2).Red-tubed flowers with yellow lobes on this clone collected in the wild by Paul Kores.
