Hollard Gardens

Family: Ericaceae (Heath)

Distribution: Japan (Yakushima Island)

Comments: Habit: Compact rounded shrub to 3m.
Foliage: 6-21 x 1-3cm, elliptic or linear-lanceolate, usually recurved. Thin indumentum on upper surface persisting for several months, lower surface has a thick, white to tawny, woolly indumentum.
Flowers: 5-10 flowers per umbel, pink buds fading to white, spotted or unspotted. Free flowering.